Hints and tips:
...“Most members of the committee will probably want more reassurance on wage and price pressures before supporting a cut in bank rate,” said Andrew Goodwin, chief UK Economist at Oxford Economics....
...Letter in response to this article: BoE needs a data deep dive / From Christine Farquhar, Folkestone, Kent, UK...
...Christine Lagarde, president of the ECB, signalled this month that the bank will “stay the course” of large interest rate increases, suggesting the same half percentage-point increase as at the last meeting...
...Andrew Goodwin: I would like to see government investment increased to 3 per cent of GDP....
...The government’s opposition was “not unprecedented but it is certainly unusual”, says Andrea Murino, a partner at law firm Goodwin Procter who previously worked in the DoJ’s antitrust division....
...Also, as Mr Goodwin says, banks are not exactly reaping stellar profits from retail banking activities....
...It has been replaced by the Goodwin principle, as defined by Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland....
...Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said French banks should use the funds to raise their tier one capital ratios to 9 per cent, so that they are on “a level playing field” with British banks....
...The outgoing boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Sir Fred Goodwin, is to receive no pay-off....
...Perhaps if the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future visit Sir Fred Goodwin, he too might start giving away turkeys and goodwill to the Cratchits still grinding away at RBS....
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