Hints and tips:
...Nick Bosanquet: No: growth 1 per cent or less: danger of recession high. Will lag other economies....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...(FT) Japan’s GPIF, the world’s largest pension fund, fired a shot across the bow of short sellers worldwide with its determination that securities lending is incompatible with its long-term investing approach...
...Savers (both retail and institutional) expect liquidity, on tap, partly fuelled by pensions freedoms and partly by the impact of Woodford collapse/ Property Fund shuttering....
...But we can make a donation with the VAT we will receive and I commit today that the Treasury will mark the centenary of the Armistice by making a donation of £10m to the armed forces covenant fund trust...
...But government grant funding for local services delivered by local councils will be cut by £1.3bn (36 per cent) in 2019/20, which will directly impact the less well off....
...Including through a new fund in the British Business Bank, seeded with £2.5 billion of public money. By facilitating pension fund access to long term investments....
...They don't know if they'll be able to stay, et cetera....
...The FT has written some great stories about this, and they’re being sold for I think €1 a now because no-one wants to run them....
...The net effect can be seen below: According to Greenspan et al, the shifting proportion of workers to retirees will supposedly increase demand for goods and services relative to supply....
...(Financial Times) “BHP Billiton is planning to cut more jobs at its flagship Australian iron ore division as it seeks to reduce costs, following a slump in iron prices....
...From next April, we will trust people with control over their own pensions....
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
...But you need to fund these projects. Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home....
...I confirm today that the government accepts Hutton’s recommendations as a basis for consultation with public sector workers, unions and others. There should be no cherry-picking on either side....
...government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...to the Baltic states via the Structural Fund have on your view of that part of the world?...
...Think of the typical Detroit car worker 30 years ago, who had a secure middle-class lifestyle, good healthcare and a fat pension to look forward to. Today, he lives in Shenzhen....
..., like restricting the availability of the tax credits and the child trust funds to better off people, like looking at bringing forward the increase in the state pension age....
...“But I couldn’t fully trust it.”...
...Even Mr Morales in Bolivia, the poorest country in Latin America, is so flush with funds from higher gas and mineral prices and new taxes that he has been able to create 4,500 jobs for teachers and 1,000...
...• If you’re a salaried worker, why not just go somewhere else?...
...And she has no qualms about saying structural reforms should borrow from successful policies in neighbouring European countries. ”If I look at Scandinavia, I see we still have a long way to go in decoupling...
...On his bargaining list is a Scottish “citizen’s pension”, saving Scottish regiments, and setting up a Norwegian-style oil trust fund for Scotland....
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