A superb one day “dealing with debt” conference gets a shamefully short and selective summary.
Posts Tagged ‘Fiscal’
27 Oct
Civitas event
The Civitas discussion of ‘A balancing act’ was, well, fun. Nothing like the “thrown to the monetarist wolves” experience I had feared.
19 Oct
ahem . . . thinktank publication of the YEAR . . .
I would like to thank my family, friends, dog, the staff of the Financial Times and the Guardian, everyone at CentreForum, everyone not at CentreForum who voted for it, the people at the SMF for taking me on as an intern, and everyone else. ‘A balancing act: fair solutions to a modern debt crisis’ wins Publication of the year. Thank god the reference to pubic spending was removed.
19 Oct
Seriously, the CBI is trying to drive us into another Depression
The CBI’s call to cut £120bn off government spending by 2015-16 (even cumulatively) is the worst piece of economic advice to be offered all year, against some pretty strong competition from The Right hon. G Osborne.
18 Oct
Conservative conference: John Redwood on public spending Cuts
The John Redwood event at Conservative conference
16 Oct
Warning to Osborne: this ain’t ever happened before . . .
When you look at historic and cross-country figures, the opportunities for export-led and investment-led growth look fairly bleak.
13 Oct
The CEBR’s view on the economy
The CEBR’s take on fiscal tightening illustrates a disturbing inability to move beyond situation-blind generalisations about macroeconomic behaviour
8 Oct
How dare he
Cameron’s speech contained two shocking pieces of dishonesty, that drew massive cheers from his Conservative crowd
7 Oct
Tory maths: not so much better than Labour maths after all?
Not so sure now that Osborne has been as straight with the People as he wants us to think
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