So the Chancellor is going to start printing money again (though they now call it ‘quantative easing’). We have seen where this can lead before – hyper-inflation in Weimar Germany, in Hungary after World War One and in Zimbabwe now. It often leads to inflation, and it can reach the point where there is insufficient
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The Gazette is reporting an increase of 18% in Blackpool’s unemployment in the past quarter – an indication that things are going to get worse before they get better. Economists have been pointing out that job losses take time to filter through usually, and that we see them later on in a recession. They’re hitting
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So it looks as though – just – Woolworths stores might be saved from closure. Staff at the Cleveleys branch and the two in Blackpool will be breathing a sigh of relief – for the moment. I am sure everyone has memories of some sort of Woolworths – buying your first single maybe, or the delights
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David Cameron has proposed giving tax cuts to employers who hire new workers, in a move that will create an estimated 350,000 new jobs over the next year. Tax cuts worth £2,500 per person, per year would be given to employers who hire new workers who have been unemployed for three months or more. £2.6 billion of
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