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  • Perfect economy truly crazy

    Perfect economy truly crazy

    Some 20 years ago Ben Bernanke now Chairman of the US Federal Reserve co-authored a text book. Macroeconomics, now in its 7th Edition, gave the definition of the title as ‘the study of the structure and performance of national economies and of the policies that governments use to try to affect economic performance’. Today the key [...]

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  • Remember jobs?

    Remember jobs?

    ‘Job for life’ has long been accepted as a concept that belongs to the past. And it’s not uncommon for politics and media to reference pockets of deprivation where two or three generations of the same family have never had jobs. If things continue as they are then it is not too great a leap [...]

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  • Disproportional Representation

    Disproportional Representation

    In the days of the hung parliament after the election, there was much talk of electoral reform to create a fairer voting system. In the midst of this emerged a truly astonishing case of Disproportional Representation. The SNP had only 1.7% of the vote, but their leader seemed to secure an inordinately large amount of [...]

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