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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