Tag Archives: Debt

Has the deficit really gone down?

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 23, 2013

As Ed Conway has noticed, if you exclude the effects of either Northern Rock asset reclassification or the profits of the SLS from today’s public sector borrowing figures, the deficit was actually higher this year than last.

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Osborne dodges a bullet but debt continues to rise

By Will Straw | Published: April 23, 2013

Economic data is coming thick and fast. Sandwiched between last week’s poor unemployment data and Thursday’s forthcoming results for GDP in the first quarter of the year, public finance figures were published today. They show that George Osborne has dodged a bullet.

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When economists are wrong we all suffer. And we now know the debt obsession is wholly misplaced

By Guest | Published: April 18, 2013

It was argued by Reinhart- Rogoff that high debt essentially meant that the state captured all resources, used them inefficiently, prevented the private sector using them and so curtailed growth at cost to everyone. There’s just one problem.

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Private sector competition had ‘negative effect’ on NHS productivity

By James Bloodworth | Published: March 5, 2013

Private sector competition in the NHS has had a “small but significant” negative impact on productivity, with NHS Trusts in areas where there is a monopoly performing better than those where there is greater private sector competition, according to a report out today.

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Payday lenders aggressively targeting university students

By Carl Packman | Published: February 28, 2013

Payday lenders have started aggressively targeting university students who are struggling with student loans. It’s time the government recognised this and took radical action to clamp down on unscrupulous lenders.

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Cost of higher tuition fees system ‘six times higher’ than savings

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 18, 2013

The system of higher tuition fees introduced by the government with the aim of saving money is likely to cost more in the longer term, a new report has warned.

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Watch: Miliband flays Cameron on the economy at PMQs

By Left Foot Forward | Published: January 30, 2013

Following Friday’s poor growth figures, Ed Miliband went after David Cameron on his failing economic record at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions.

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Reeves: Tories “may be attempting to deliberately mislead the public” over stats and government’s record

By Guest | Published: January 24, 2013

Shadow chief secretary Rachel Reeves says the Tories may be attempting to “deliberately mislead the public” about over statistics and the government’s record.

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Shocking economic illiteracy from the Telegraph

By Shamik Das | Published: October 1, 2012

  In a grandiose editorial proclaiming Labour “cannot be trusted to rebuild Britain”, the Telegraph this morning showed that it cannot be trusted to tell the truth on the economy. Today’s leader column ranted: The slogan for this week’s Labour conference in Manchester is “Rebuilding Britain”. Is this supposed to be a joke? After all, [...]

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Risk of 23-year slump as Cameron now forecast to borrow double what Brown was

By Cormac Hollingsworth | Published: September 5, 2012

David Cameron and George Osborne are set to borrow double the figure Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were projected to.

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