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The Guardian:
Prime minister warns Britain should be careful not to withdraw its support for the economy too soonGordon Brown warned today that Britain should be careful not to withdraw its support for the economy, implemented in the midst (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficitRichard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London (Read More)
The Economist:
Don’t cut the deficit now—but explain how, eventually, you willFOR years America’s fiscal problems had a surreal quality. No one disputed that an ageing population and health-care inflation could bust the budget, but that pro (Read More)
The Guardian:
Merely reducing Britain's trillion-pound debt mountain will not be enough to reinvigorate the economy: the tricky bit is stimulating growth at the same time. Observer columnist Will Hutton goes head to head with George Osborn (Read More)
The Guardian:
Central banks are relaxed about booming asset markets. But with repossessions rising and jobs still scarce, some fear we're heading straight for another bust.The din from the commodity pits on the Chicago exchanges is growing (Read More)
The Economist: Full print edition:
The prime minister’s flirtation with an idea whose time never seems to comeIT WAS, veterans of economic summitry noted, the kind of idea a French minister would once have floated simply to annoy Gordon Brown. On November 7th (Read More)
The Economist: Full print edition:
Mario Draghi has helped turn a talking shop into a pillar of the world economyIS ITALY too small for Mario Draghi? The head of the country’s central bank spent the weekend of November 7th and 8th not in Rome but at the G20 me (Read More)
The Guardian:
It doesn't take a genius to work out that the accrued bonus pool at Barclays Capital will be largeGood profits, nice token dividend. So how much has been set aside for bonuses? Barclays, naturally, danced around this question (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Gordon Brown has added to the momentum pushing for a tax on global financial transactions. But the battle is far from wonGordon Brown's statement of support for a tax on global financial transactions is a welcome call on the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Members of the eurozone were quite right to suspect 'Anglo-Saxon capitalism'It was a somewhat chastened British government which hosted the meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors of that new focus of glob (Read More)
The Guardian:
Twenty years on Europe and the US have squandered their victory, Russia is mired in depression and China has new powerThose who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happ (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
France's economy minister believes her country's financial system helped it out of recessionAfter more than a decade of lectures from Gordon Brown about the need to let markets rip, it is little wonder that the French are hav (Read More)
The Guardian:
The US state has been named the world's most opaque jurisdiction in a major new survey of financial secrecyYou're a billionaire but you don't want anyone, least of all the taxman, to know. What do you do? Head for a palm-frin (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
• Chancellor to push member states to commit to €10bn a year• US to be urged to match the European contributionThe European Union should commit €10bn (£9.1bn) a year in direct funding to help developing countries adapt to the (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate:
For all the global love-in, the new president has led rich nations to neglect principled action and row back from climate dealsOf all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize, the one that rang truest came from N (Read More)
FT.com - International economy:
The realisation that the G20 is Europe's Trojan horse struck me at the G20's last summit in Pittsburgh. The surroundings and atmosphere were strangely familiar. And then I understood; this was just a global version of a Europ (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The Tory leader really should have done more to prevent the divisive issue of Europe spoiling his conferenceI wake up in Manchester to find myself surprised that David Cameron's leadership has allowed itself to be cornered ov (Read More)
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