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Showing posts with label double-dip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label double-dip. Show all posts
Friday, 30 March 2012
UK economy back in recession - as predicted
Only Quantative Easing prevented this happening earlier – 88% of the cuts have yet to be made and another £10bn of welfare cuts to come on top of the £18bn….we will be below Chinese wages and living standards before long - 1m NEET workless young people already are – that is the project…of the Tories in the coalition. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/29/uk-back-in-recession-oecd
Monday, 28 November 2011
Write off the debt, bankrupt the banks, nationalise the financial system, and start all over again
On BBC Hardtalk Sarah Montague talks to Steve Keen, one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis, about the possibility of another Great Depression, and how to avoid it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018ksby/HARDtalk/
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
The wrong type of recession
Last weekends’ papers were awash with some welcome dissent on Osbornes’ economic performance as calls for a ‘plan B’ strategy came from some of his previous backers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/04/uk-new-economic-approach
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