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Same-Sex Marriage is not a subversion of the institution of marriage
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Today, Cardinal Keith O’Brien wrote in Sunday Telegraph that same-sex marriage is wrong. As a Catholic, I beg to differ. I believe Cardinal O’Brien to be a fabricator of untruths. For this I direct you to a paragraph written by the Cardin...
Same-Sex Marriage is not a subversion of the institution of marriage
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Today, Cardinal Keith O’Brien wrote in Sunday Telegraph that same-sex marriage is wrong. As a Catholic, I beg to differ. I believe Cardinal O’Brien to be a fabricator of untruths. For this I direct you to a paragraph written by the Cardin...
Scrap the FTT, have a Bourse Tax instead
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At 10.53 on 20th January 2012, the Telegraph reported on their live blog: 10.53 A German Government spokesman says that an EU-wide financial transaction tax is still the goal, but that there may be a possible bridge with the UK via a bourse tax. Wha...
Scrap the FTT, have a Bourse Tax instead
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At 10.53 on 20th January 2012, the Telegraph reported on their live blog: 10.53 A German Government spokesman says that an EU-wide financial transaction tax is still the goal, but that there may be a possible bridge with the UK via a bourse tax. Wha...
The Relationship between Unemployment Rate and Worker Productivity
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This relationship was stumbled upon as I was doing some sampling on the Labour Force Survey dataset for another project. As can be seen from the Box Plot below, a pattern emerges when output per worker (productivity) is run against the standardised...
The Relationship between Unemployment Rate and Worker Productivity
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This relationship was stumbled upon as I was doing some sampling on the Labour Force Survey dataset for another project. As can be seen from the Box Plot below, a pattern emerges when output per worker (productivity) is run against the standardised...
Conditions for the perfect economy
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In a report published by HSBC on predictions for the global economy in 2050, there were listed conditions for which create strong and sustained growth. The variables and models are based on the work of Robert Barro: Determinants of Economic Growth: a...
Conditions for the perfect economy
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In a report published by HSBC on predictions for the global economy in 2050, there were listed conditions for which create strong and sustained growth. The variables and models are based on the work of Robert Barro: Determinants of Economic Growth: a...
Central Banks are inhibiting growth
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Last night (10/01/2012) I went to a lecture given by the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, at the LSE. The subject was entitled: “Deleveraging and Growth: is the developed world following Japan’s long and winding road?...
Central Banks are inhibiting growth
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Last night (10/01/2012) I went to a lecture given by the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, at the LSE. The subject was entitled: “Deleveraging and Growth: is the developed world following Japan’s long and winding road?...
Don’t be fooled by Eurosceptic ‘libertarians’…
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…as they are just xenophobes. This applies aptly to the Tory right and UKIP. Some might be theoretically libertarians but by calling for a withdrawal from the EU they cannot call themselves libertarians in practice. The EU guarantees free trade...
Don’t be fooled by Eurosceptic ‘libertarians’…
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…as they are just xenophobes. This applies aptly to the Tory right and UKIP. Some might be theoretically libertarians but by calling for a withdrawal from the EU they cannot call themselves libertarians in practice. The EU guarantees free trade...
No fun in Italy
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Italy’s €33bn austerity programme is as follows: • Property tax on first homes, increase on taxes for second and third houses. • A 2 percentage point hike in VAT from October next year. • Tax on money brought back to Italy under “...
No fun in Italy
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Italy’s €33bn austerity programme is as follows: • Property tax on first homes, increase on taxes for second and third houses. • A 2 percentage point hike in VAT from October next year. • Tax on money brought back to Italy under “...
Libya: How the West learnt the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan
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With the news of the capture of Saif al Islam Gaddafi and the death of Muammar Gaddafi it appears that the long Libya conflict is finally at end with a victory for the NATO-backed rebel forces. How did this come about when the conflicts in Iraq and A...
Libya: How the West learnt the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan
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With the news of the capture of Saif al Islam Gaddafi and the death of Muammar Gaddafi it appears that the long Libya conflict is finally at end with a victory for the NATO-backed rebel forces. How did this come about when the conflicts in Iraq and A...
Infrastructure Investment: Privatisation
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George Osborne, ahead of Tuesday’s Autumn statement on the economy, has announced that there will be a £30bn investment in UK infrastructure. £25bn to come from pension funds and the China Investment Corporation and the remaining £5bn to be...
Infrastructure Investment: Privatisation
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George Osborne, ahead of Tuesday’s Autumn statement on the economy, has announced that there will be a £30bn investment in UK infrastructure. £25bn to come from pension funds and the China Investment Corporation and the remaining £5bn to be...
Retort to the Telegraph
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On Friday, The Telegraph ‘reported’ on “Germany’s secret plans to derail a British referendum on the EU”. The plans aren’t that secret. The think tank, Open Europe, has provided an English translation of the document, entitled: The...
Retort to the Telegraph
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On Friday, The Telegraph ‘reported’ on “Germany’s secret plans to derail a British referendum on the EU”. The plans aren’t that secret. The think tank, Open Europe, has provided an English translation of the document, entitled: The...
