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...Paul Mortimer-Lee, chief economist of North America, BNP Paribas Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...And while this is an archetypal DeLillo novel, in subject matter and theme, it has obvious influences and antecedents, from Samuel Beckett to JG Ballard and Andrei Tarkovsky to Arthur C Clarke....
...The tax credits U-turn was a clear indication of two things: (i) in political terms spending cuts are becoming more difficult to implement, and (ii) Mr Osborne enjoys enough political capital to alter his...
...Lee Hopley, Chief Economist, EEF, the manufacturers' organisation There are enough reasons to the confident that the UK is in for another year of growth at around trend....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Rest of economy, very little. Scotland would get a downward hit at first, then recover....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Simply taper off official support. Peter Dixon, Commerzbank: The housing market is less in need of restraint than a significant supply boost....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Inflation down whatever Bank does. Bank will be buying gilts....
...Winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize and described as “magnificent” by the FT....
...As the late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington noted in the 1960s, the more complex a society is, the more institutions are needed to govern it....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Laissez faire. Have nominal GDP objective for monetary policy, reinforced fiscally if necessary....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Fiscal tightening has gone too far! So far budget deficit hardly changed. If the bond market does anything silly Govt should borrow short....
...Berners-Lee tells us how much carbon dioxide is emitted by (almost) everything we buy, including its production, transport and operation....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times Winners will be those with secure jobs or pensions. Losers: those losing jobs or fearing that they will....
...(ii) The UK’s manufacturing sector has once again been hammered during a global downturn....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times Consolidation should notstart before 2011.Speed should depend on state of economy....
...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times Not really an illusion. But growth rates per capita tend to converge in medium term....
...LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS (Click here for last week’s quiz) 1 Mark Rylance 2 “Happy Days” by Samuel Beckett....
...CATHERINE THE GREAT: Love, Sex and Powerby Virginia RoundingHutchinson ₤20 Sexually voracious, head-strong, hard-working and intellectual, Empress Catherine II of Russia was everything an 18th-century woman...
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