Category Archives: government expenditure economics

Hedge Funds Rampant!

The Financial Times of the 28th May 2012 carried what I find to be a worrying report (http://on.ft.com/K2S8Z2) by Mr Savouri the chief economist of London-based Toscafund.

The report appears to be very bullish. It opines that in the medium term the prospects for the UK are better than those of Germany! However this rosy future is predicated on two factors that should be anything but rosy for the current people of England. These are:

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Hedge Funds Rampant!

The Financial Times of the 28th May 2012 carried what I find to be a worrying report (http://on.ft.com/K2S8Z2) by Mr Savouri the chief economist of London-based Toscafund.

The report appears to be very bullish. It opines that in the medium term the prospects for the UK are better than those of Germany! However this rosy future is predicated on two factors that should be anything but rosy for the current people of England. These are:

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Cuts! What Cuts?

The battle is raging  fiercely. The usual tools of generalisation, casuistics, feeble and sometimes misleading statistics, are being brought into play.

Riding in to help the beleaguered coalition is, believe it or not, the Guardian newspaper! Simon Jenkins has pointed out that if George Osborne gets what he wants total public spending, in real terms, will be £640bn in 2015 compared to £665bn today. Even more telling is that after New Labour’s first term on office it was only £449bn.

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