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October 2013
'Mark Carney has undermined what many viewed as a basic premise of the UK inflation-targeting regime'
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September 2013
'George Osborne did not have the gumption to take my advice and reject the Vickers report on banking in 2011. Now he is blatantly trying to bypass its constraints'
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July/August 2013
'The ten years to 2017 could be the first peacetime decade since the 17th century to see no economic growth in Europe'
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May 2013
‘Burke asserted that we should value chivalry, morality and friendship. But how do we measure the huge rise in social media in terms of GDP?’
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