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Lib Dems examine options to fast-track £10,000 tax threshold plans
Party looks at options to raise the billions necessary to fund Nick Clegg's proposal to lift income tax threshold more quicklyThe Liberal Democrats have started examining ways to raise billions in...
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The UK economy needs a shower of money in the high street | Simon Jenkins
Printing money might not be dignified, but it does work – just keep the banks and the credit rating agencies out of itIt works like this. You get De La Rue to print £14bn of banknotes, roughly the...
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The capitalism debate is anaemic – it must dig deeper | Peter Guillam
More workable forms of capitalism will not appear without a wholesale reassessment of ideology, institutions and regulationsSuddenly, debating the nature of capitalism has become mainstream politics....
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David Cameron in U-turn over fiscal policing of eurozone
Government signals it will not challenge fiscal enforcement role for European commission and European court of justiceThe prime minister has abandoned his pledge to block the eurozone from using common...
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Labour must do more to be credible on economy, says Douglas Alexander
Shadow foreign secretary warns that public has not heard enough from Labour party about how it would cut the deficitDouglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, is warning Labour it has only...
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George Osborne wants business to make the case for scrapping top tax rate
Make the argument for how detrimental the 50% tax rate is for jobs and investment, chancellor tells British executives in DavosGeorge Osborne urged business to make the case for the scrapping of the...
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Stephen Hester's pay deal discredits an entire bonus culture | Will Hutton
The government has failed as a shareholder and a regulator – clawing back money now will only do it further damageAn issue that unites Boris Johnson and Ed Miliband must have extraordinary political...
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Anger at further RBS bonus payouts
David Cameron faces calls to rein in pay at bailed-out bank after revelations more staff could receive large bonusesPressure was mounting on David Cameron on Saturday to rein in pay at the Royal Bank...
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In an age of austerity can capitalism really be popular?
When even David Cameron has his doubts, backing business is a thankless taskBanging the drum for British business can be a thankless job at the best of times; but now, as politicians across the...
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Davos policymakers are playing Global Apocalypse – and running out of lives
If the world economy was a video game, the central bankers and politicians have been struggling to master the controls – and remain stuck on the first levelImagine the world economy as a video game,...
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Why are deficit-cutters so afraid to talk about tax? | Mehdi Hasan
Reducing public spending is not the only way of balancing the budget, but taxation seems to be taboo for politicians'I like paying taxes," the US supreme court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once...
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The long-lived radio show broadcast an interview with David Attenborough to commemorate the dateMartin Rowson
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If Lib Dems can't influence this welfare bill, why are we in coalition? |...
MPs must listen to Lib Dem members before they vote on the Lords amendments to the bill: the soul of the party is at stake"To build and safeguard a fair, free and open society where no one is enslaved...
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Taxing wealth? The public mood still escapes the Tories | Polly Toynbee
Ed Miliband's task is to point out where the blame really lies for unfairness in the system: the field is there for Labour's takingThe Hester bonus retreat marks a seismic political moment, a point of...
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David Cameron backpedals on bonuses with late call for restraint
PM reverses policy of non-intervention as Cable and Miliband weigh in against bankers' payDavid Cameron has urged the Royal Bank of Scotland to show restraint in its bonus packages for senior...
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GDP change data by country compared: are we out of recession yet?
New GDP figures show it edging up across Europe. But how do different countries compare - and are we recovering yet?• Get the dataGDP is up across the Euro zone - announced by Eurostat on the day that...
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Public sector pension reforms 'won't make long-term savings'
Analysis from the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows that lower earners in the public sector would get a more generous pension as a result of the reformsControversial reforms to public sector pensions...
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The wilful amnesia of Europe's austerity debacle | Paul Krugman
The prophets of the 'expansionary austerity' doctrine thought there was no need to pay heed to economic historyLast week, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a British thinktank,...
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Green jobs: a utopia we nearly had | Anne Karpf
Workers in a failing 1970s arms factory created a revolutionary jobs plan. We need their vision nowWhat's wrong with us all? Why aren't we spending? In Athens, it was reported this week, shoppers are...
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Clinging to economic growth suffocates the imagination | Andrew Simms
After 40 years, the message of The Limits to Growth report is still not being heard. We need other ways to share a finite planetListen to the news today and you would think that economic growth was the...
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