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Our debt
Read more: Our debtGordon Brown has failed spectacularly to manage our finances and he should be held accountable for it at the next general election. In the meantime, I’ll let this fade into the archive:
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Frosty this morning
Read more: Frosty this morningFrosty spider’s web, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Frosty Greenwood, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker.
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First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista – The Register
Read more: First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista – The RegisterEveryone expects release later this year. A leaked briefing paper for OEM vendors suggests that the date when buyers of Windows Vista machines qualify for a free upgrade begins “for planning purposes” on July 1, 2009. via First…
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Risk and reward as the Bank cuts the base rate to 1.5%
Read more: Risk and reward as the Bank cuts the base rate to 1.5%Via Bank of England cuts base rate to 1.5% | Business | guardian.co.uk : The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee (MPC) has cut interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.5% – their lowest level since…
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Money, the free market, circulating credit, deflation and sound money
Read more: Money, the free market, circulating credit, deflation and sound moneyVia A Golden Way Out of the Monetary Fiasco – Thorsten Polleit – Mises Institute, essential reading for anyone interested in the financial crisis, its causes and a route out (despite its use of the G-word!): The government-controlled monetary…
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“We’ll get ‘Shameless’ families out of bed and off to work in the morning”, says Blears | Mail Online
Read more: “We’ll get ‘Shameless’ families out of bed and off to work in the morning”, says Blears | Mail OnlineWild interventionism: A crackdown on “Shameless” families could see state officials turning up at peoples homes to get them out of bed for work and make sure their children go to school. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said the…
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Enable innovation; don’t ask for it.
Read more: Enable innovation; don’t ask for it.(From my professional site) Everyone wants their staff to innovate, but how to get them to do it? It’s a popular word: it means “to make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products”.…
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Outpost: Basecamp project management on the iPhone
Read more: Outpost: Basecamp project management on the iPhoneBasecamp is an excellent online project management tool for anyone with a browser: WHY BASECAMP? Basecamp takes a fresh, novel approach to project collaboration. Projects don’t fail from a lack of charts, graphs, stats, or reports, they fail…
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Gas supplies to Europe dry up as row between Russia and Ukraine deepens – Times Online
Read more: Gas supplies to Europe dry up as row between Russia and Ukraine deepens – Times OnlineGas supplies from Russia to Europe plummeted overnight with four countries reporting a complete halt as the dispute between Moscow and Ukraine over payment rates dramatically worsened. Kiev said that Gazprom, the Russian state gas company, had cut…