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		<title>Youth Unemployment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment of young people in the UK in February 2012 was 1.03m – down from 1.04m in the last quarter of 2011. Despite this modest fall, observers in the UK and around the world, including the UK’s National Institute of &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2444">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>UK back in recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Leveson Inquiry rumbles on, spare a thought for the poor old UK economy. Figures released today tell a sorry tale of economic woe, with negative growth of 0.2 in the first quarter of 2011. While these figures are &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2414">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Budget 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, presented his third budget to Parliament this Wednesday (March 23rd, 2012) and immediately faced a storm of protest from pensions groups, unions, and those representing society&#8217;s poorest. Although a fiscally neutral budget &#8211; political opponents &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2397">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New competition authority announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced its plans to create a new competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which will replace the Competition Commission as well as take over the all competition functions of &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2389">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Latest changes to the CPI shopping basket</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ONS has announced its latest changes to the basket of goods and services it uses to compile its influential CPI and RPI inflation indices. Into the basket come tablet computers, fees paid to dating agencies, and ‘teenage fiction’, and &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2385">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>UK unemployment hits 17 year high</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment in the UK rose by 48,000 in the last quarter of 2011, reaching 2.67 million, some 8.4% of the active population.  This is the highest level of unemployment for 17 years, and provides yet further evidence that, like the &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2364">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Europe agrees fiscal union</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe’s 27 leaders failed to reach full agreement on a new European Treaty, having to settle for a second-best option of an intergovernmental agreement. This &#8216;compact&#8217; represents the first serious step towards a common European fiscal policy, and to even &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2306">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Tobin tax for Europe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cantor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tobin tax is a special tax on currency transactions, designed to penalise excessive short-term speculation in currency markets. Advocates have long argued that in order to reduce speculation and instability in financial markets some form of transaction tax should &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2300">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Euro bailout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cantor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Euro bailout, agreed in principle this week, has three related components. Firstly, the write-off of 50% of Greek debts held with private banks. It is estimated that the effect of this will be to reduce Greek debt to 120% &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2279">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More misery ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Higson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More misery ahead for UK households with the publication of the latest inflation figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). CPI inflation rose to 5.2% in the 12 months to September 2011, the highest rate for 3 years, while &#8230; <a href="http://economicsonline.co.uk/wordpress/?p=2269">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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