Hints and tips:
...— Mervyn King: “The Bank of England made a terrible mistake” (The New Statesman) — Duncan Weldon on the BoE’s credibility problems (Value Added / Substack) — Secular inflation (Project Syndicate) —...
...The late Giles Gordon — Scotland’s top literary agent, whose clients included Fay Weldon, Vikram Seth and Peter Ackroyd — briefly represented him at the end of the 1990s....
...The relative stability of what former Bank of England governor Mervyn King once called the “Nice” (non-inflationary, continuous expansion) decade are an interesting contrast with the crises that punctuate...
...The area is popular with oligarchs’ offspring, says Jayne Weldon of local agent Wetherell, especially fashion students, who like living above the boutiques on Mount Street....
..."King Bibi" ended his campaign lobbying heavily for rightwing votes, saying he would not allow a Palestinian state to be established if he were elected....
...“King Bibi” ended his campaign lobbying heavily for rightwing votes, saying he would not allow a Palestinian state to be established if he were elected....
...Khilnani is now Avantha professor of politics and director of the India Institute at King’s College London, and they have a small house in south London as a base for their peripatetic lives....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: Economists and economic historians are likely to still be debating the productivity puzzle in years to come....
...Stephen King, HSBC: Macropru policies are the most obvious, although they will create distortions....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: The Bank of England will certainly not want to change its forward guidance having only issued it in August, but it may have to....
...Stephen King, HSBC: If things carry on the way they are at the moment, it will end in tears....
...Stephen King, HSBC: The cyclical debate over austerity is tiresome. The issue is not so much whether policy should have been a bit tighter or a bit loser....
...Stephen King, HSBC: A lot depends on the rate of inflation. For all the good news on unemployment, wage growth remains stubbornly low....
...Purcell O Solitude: songs and arias by Purcell Andreas Scholl (Decca) Courteville, Croft, Draghi, Handel, Haym, Matteis, Pepusch, Purcell and Weldon Musical London c.1700: music from Purcell to Handel...
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: The cost of housing – both home ownership and rental prices – remains too high, particularly in London and the southeast....
...Stephen King, HSBC: Is this the dumbing down of UK plc? Are workers simply pricing themselves into lower pay, lower productivity jobs?...
...Stephen King, HSBC: If leaving the EU increased the UK’s focus on opportunities in the emerging world, then departure might have some benefit....
...Duncan Weldon, TUC: “Tight credit is certainly one factor – along with fiscal policy, the squeeze on real incomes and the eurozone crisis holding back the economy....
...Stephen King, HSBC: The Treasury might orchestrate a change, but it will be for parliament to approve....
...Stephen King, HSBC: It won’t. Growth may be positive but nothing like positive enough. Bumping along the bottom is not the same as a sustained economic rebound....
...Stephen King, HSBC: Plan A has already morphed into Plan A minus....
...Previous writers-in-residence at the glamorous address have included Michael Morpurgo, Fay Weldon and Kathy Lette....
...Fay Weldon is author of ‘The Stepmother’s Diary’ (Quercus)...
...You’ll look like the cute little sister of one of the Three Kings....
...They tell us, for example, that Weldon Church in Northamptonshire used to double as an inland lighthouse, “guiding people through once treacherously dense woods”....
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