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...James Plunkett, executive director of Citizens Advice, said the CMA’s ruling was overall a “good result for consumers”....
...Provocations: The Work of David Connor by Drew Plunkett (£45, Lund Humphries) Collaborating with the likes of Vivienne Westwood and Anish Kapoor, David Connor was a pioneer of architectural design in the...
...The total £67.4m (£79.3m with fees) was within estimate and dominated by David Hockney’s “Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott” (1969), which sold for £33m (£37.7m with fees, est £30m)....
...Few others would have, even before Hugh Plunkett died....
...David Cameron is said to be planning to spend the next few months selectively remembering his time at Downing Street....
...James Plunkett of Citizens Advice says: “Despite one in five people now renting privately, the sector is still relatively weakly regulated for an industry of this size....
...David runs through the probability of a “rates rage” once central banks start to leave the zero bound....
...In 2006, when David Cameron dismissed the UK Independence party as a bunch of fruitcakes, it seemed like a fair comment. Not any more....
...Plunkett-Hogge, though, flits lightly and tantalisingly through a glamorous life in 1950s Bangkok and later in the film and music industries. The recipes are enticing....
...David Riley, BlueBay Asset Management: “Why is it a jobless recovery?!”...
...David Goodhart, Demos: Yes and yes. James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation: On current trends, unemployment will head back past 7 per cent this year....
...James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation: For all the focus on public debt, household debt is still the sleeping giant....
...James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation: 2014 will be a fiscal policy landmark: it is the halfway point in the government’s planned consolidation―or at least in the latest version of those plans....
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...James Plunkett of the Resolution Foundation said the decision to cut tax credits would “take billions from the pockets of consumers with the highest marginal propensity to spend”....
...James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation, did not answer: Chris Pissarides, LSE: Yes, it will, and more now will do no harm....
...James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation: On current forecasts, trends in inflation should be a rare positive story in 2012, with headline rates falling throughout the year, lessening declines in real incomes...
...David Blanchflower, former MPC member: Tough one. My suspicions are that the measures of productivity are hopeless....
...James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation: When it comes to supply, we’re still limited by stale pro- and anti-regulation arguments....
...David Blanchflower, former MPC member It is hard to see that the eurozone will be intact by the end of 2012. Greece will inevitably default....
...James Plunkett, Resolution Foundation: For all the debate about the aggregate pace of deficit reduction, too little time has been expended on the specifics....
...David Blanchflower, former MPC member: I am very bearish on the prospects for 2012. I see the chances of positive growth at less than 50/50....
...In London, Thailand-born Brit Kay Plunkett-Hogge offers Thai cooking lessons in either her home or yours (£125 per person; or £150 for a private lesson; www.kaycooks.com/kays-classes) and Middle Eastern...
...Though he never worked with a big manufacturer, the Plunkett Plan modular furniture system, designed in 1968, remains in production today....
...David Fanger, senior vice-president at Moody’s, says a greater reliance on Chapter 13 bankruptcy could lead to a $600m windfall for the credit card industry....
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