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May 2015
"Contrary to Paul Krugman’s bluster, Britain has experienced less fiscal austerity under Cameron than the US under Obama"
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April 2015
‘Osborne appears to have achieved the miraculous. He has combined budgetary overspending with a reduction in cost of the debt burden'
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March 2015
"The boom in the output of the financial sector was a boom in productivity. This has been stopped in its tracks by bureaucracy and regulation."
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January/February 2015
"Why have international investors and domestic savings institutions not sold off British government debt in anger at the slow progress on budgetary restraint?"
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