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New Zealand's macro-prudential mortgage tools: an idea to bring home?
The RBA will be watching closely as New Zealand introduces innovative regulations designed to protect its banking systemThis week New Zealand beat Australia on two measures. First, the same-sex...
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UK economy expanding faster than first thought, GDP revision shows
ONS raises second-quarter growth estimate from 0.6% to 0.7% – the strongest figures since the Olympic boostBritain's recession-scarred economy clocked up growth of 0.7% in the second quarter of the...
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Ed Miliband: Labour got it wrong on low wages
Party leader promises to prioritise national living wage in next Labour governmentEd Miliband has blamed the last Labour administration for failing to properly address falling wages, promising to make...
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HS2: The British will fund wars, but not the infrastructure vital to our future
The rail project should not fall victim to a disastrous short-termist culture that hampers vital public investmentBritain does not believe in investment – as is painfully obvious in both the private...
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Robert Skidelsky: 'Why don't more people aspire to living a good life?'
The economic historian talks about his utopian philosophy, our damaging pursuit of money and the problem with happinessYour book, How Much Is Enough?, asks the ancient question of what constitutes a...
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Real recovery needs an overhaul of the investment machine
Corporate short-termism, and British companies' resultant pitiful levels of investment, make an industrial renaissance all but impossible. Can Labour engineer a change?Flipping through the telly...
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Mark Carney to encounter the Nottingham school of economic theory
Bank governor will deliver latest address from city's university, famous for Nobel laureate Clive Granger and Jeff Randall of SkyNottingham University has been home to some great economic minds,...
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Labour needs a bold message to disrupt the Cameron-Farage conversation
Ed Miliband can regain ground if he looks to the long term and starts talking about poverty and the housing crisisEconomic recovery makes politics more interesting. All the time growth was flatlining,...
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The great British seaside sell-off
In 1979, the state met almost all of British holidaymakers' needs, from transport to hotels to the fun stuff. Then Thatcherism changed everything. Neil Clark looks back at how our summers used to...
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Squeezed Britons try their hand at microbusiness to top up incomes
Rise in number of people starting new businesses but experts question to what extent startup numbers are measure of economic successWhile Nick Barton is touring Afghanistan as a soldier, his new...
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The economic recovery may be patchy, but the left is wrong to ignore it |...
It's not the same across the country, but there are signs of growth. The challenge for Labour is how to make the most of the new realityI'd just finished saying, on camera, that the people of Rochdale...
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UK economy: creativity is the key to recovery
A major expansion of hi-tech manufacturing is our best hope of rebalancing the British economySo, according to George Osborne, austerity is paying off and the economy is on the mend. If only. Britain's...
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Infrastructure: national health
The UK's notorious record of undercommitting to infrastructure investment means we languish at 24th in a global league tableHow to build the future is the stuff of politics, yet as a serious study it...
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George Osborne's homes scheme could sideline first-time buyers, say lenders
Help to Buy scheme may 'give with one hand and take with the other' by pushing costs up by 11% by the end of 2016George Osborne's policy of kickstarting the housing market with subsidised mortgages...
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David Alexander: Kevin Rudd can't take credit for avoiding the economic crisis – it is the pre-existing strength of the Australian government's finances which saved us from a catastropheDavid Alexander
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Bank of England boss Mark Carney sidesteps City to ease rate rise fears
Governor to clarify forward guidance policy in speech to regional business leaders after traders picked apart new strategyThe Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, will attempt to shore up his...
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Beware the Ides of September: a turbulent month for the economy
It brought Lehman Brothers' collapse and Northern Rock's run, now Syria, the Fed Reserve and G20 are among new flashpointsSeptember is a dangerous month. Five years ago this month, Lehman Brothers went...
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Scottish households 'would be £2,000 better off if voters reject independence'
George Osborne to argue that remaining in the UK would boost real incomes in Scotland by 4% over the next 30 yearsScottish households will be about £2,000 better off and freer to work and trade with...
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Free childcare scheme to be extended to 40% of two-year-olds
Families earning less than £16,190 a year will benefit from changes to be set out in detail by Nick CleggA "helping hand" will be offered to nearly half of all two-year-olds in England who will benefit...
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Childcare can help drive the economy – forget the big boys' toys | Lucy Powell
High-speed rail and airport expansions get the go-ahead while universal childcare is left off the government's business agendaI'm writing this piece on childcare while entertaining my new baby and...
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