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2 September 10 by Toby Baxendale
Today’s Telegraph reports
The International Monetary Fund has warned that long-term fiscal reforms will be required among advanced economies as it projected the UK’s gross debt to gross domestic product would rise to 90.6pc in 2015.
According to Mark Littlewood at the IEA,
These statistics underscore the need to drastically cut government spending. Only through cutting spending and [...]
1 September 10 by Mark Goodhand
In his latest article for CentreRight, Steve Baker explains his vision of the Big Society:
The change we need is a change within. From a belief that human relationships should be based on class conflict and mutual plunder mediated by the State, to a reliance on mutual cooperation. From the view that business is somehow bad, [...]
by Toby Baxendale
In the UK there is little if any discussion on Intellectual Property Law. I think it would be correct to say that it would be considered a backwater of law for specialists and of not much relevance to the better running of society . Tucker and Kinsella, in this article, put IP law at the [...]
31 August 10 by Andy Duncan
In his usual delicate and roundabout way, in the first of two new videos, Peter Schiff criticises several recent media articles about how a new recessionary dip is impossible, due to the nature of the current upwardly sloping bond market yield curve.
[As Gary North explains, most ordinary US recessions are presaged by a downwardly sloping yield [...]
30 August 10 by Steven Baker MP
Via Bank plans to cap risky mortgages – Telegraph:
Mortgage lending would be “capped” to stop borrowers taking out risky loans under radical Bank of England plans to prevent a repeat of the credit crisis, a senior official has disclosed.
But why did borrowers wish to borrow so much, so riskily? And why did lenders wish to lend [...]
