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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/31/theresa-may-inequality-margaret-thatcher-resolution-foundation
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/17/imf-urges-spending-boost-growth
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/what-happens-next-europe
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asterisk2ainequality Robert Reich Joseph Stiglitz Paul Krugman squeezed middle class working poor CEO pay shareholder capitalism IMF western world Super Rich 1% plutocracy oligarchy discretionary spending disposable income Generation Rent poverty trap meritocracy meritocratic distribution American Dream child Thomas Piketty growth mobility Gini coefficient social redistribution Universal Basic tax credit free evasion amnesty avoidance HMRC Political Governance Career Politicians revolving door Lobbying lobby lobbyist No Representation Niall Ferguson secular stagnation Elizabeth Warren Precariat job insecurity welfare state safety net nominal GDP targeting WHO consumerism materialism status anxiety values self-esteem mental health well being GNPhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8e6377b41aa8/German Banks Told To Start Hoarding Cash | Zero Hedge2016-03-04T19:40:55+00:00
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asterisk2aRichard Koo aggregate demand austerity fiscal policy Pact Schuldenbremse economic history ZIRP NIRP QE distortion financial repression hunt for yield speculative bubbles speculation Venture Capital Mutual Fund Private Equity reflate reflation recovery GFC debtoverhang liquidity trap zombie banks deleveraging Debt Super Cycle secular stagnation consumer wage squeezed middle class disposable income discretionary spending marginal propensity to consume tax evasion avoidance oligarchy plutocracy Rich 1% household car loan credit card student Bubble generation rent OMT job creation Service Sector Jobs working poor precarious work Precariat Zero Hour Contract Contractor Leiharbeit Zeitarbeit Agenda 2010 low pay TLTRO LTRO monetary transmission mechanism velocity of moneyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c7771e102797/UK consumes far less than a decade ago – 'peak stuff' or something else? | Business | The Guardian2016-02-29T22:57:32+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/29/uk-consumes-far-less-ons-crops-energy-metals-average-material-consumption
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/24/brexit-referendum-destabilise-uk-economic-recovery-imf-lagarde
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-20/alarm-goes-threatening-strong-us-jobs-myth-withheld-income-taxes-are-stalling
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/15/full-time-work-is-no-bar-to-poverty-in-uk-report-says
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2016/feb/10/market-turmoil-australia-japan-ftse-deutsche-bank-dow-live?page=with:block-56bb3695e4b0cc23201724ec#block-56bb3695e4b0cc23201724ec
asterisk2aQE inequality reflate reflation distortion recovery job creation Service Sector Jobs UK USA fiscal policy monetary stimulus unconventional Fed BOE bank bailout zombie banks consumer corporations ZIRP NIRP TARP TLTRO LTRO ECB equity bubble asset property Housing Crisis Help to Buy Scheme Save Right income Gini coefficient social mobility budget deficit austerity George Osborne distribution poverty trap tax credit low pay squeezed middle class Precariat Zero Hour Contract Contractor part-time Tories nasty party homeless homelessness affordable Conservative Toff Privileged Establishment Funding discretionary spending disposable household debt card student loan servitude economic historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a141b05f69cf/What's holding back the world economy? | Business | The Guardian2016-02-09T20:10:48+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/08/whats-holding-back-world-economy-joseph-e-stiglitz
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/07/uk-gdp-falters-chancellor-keep-interest-rates-low-mark-carney
asterisk2aGeorge Osborne secular stagnation 2016 2015 Mark Carney BOE consumer debt household mortgage market subprime credit card zombie UK GDP output gap productivity job creation Service Sector Jobs recovery economic history austerity underinvestment business investment public fiscal policy monetary Richard Koo Paul Krugman David Cameron nasty party Conservative Tories short-termism bubble debtoverhang servitude disposable income discretionary spending marginal propensity to consume Funding 1% financial repression New Normal constituency babyboomers oligarchy Gini coefficient distribution inequality plutocracy Super Rich tax evasion avoidance corporate welfare subsidies subsidizing growth low pay wage precarious work Precariat free rate minimum budget2015 Food Bank foreign direct productive infrastructure demographic western world USA European Union ageing population CapEx Capital Expenditure corporations bankshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6d4bf762f385/More Evidence Supporting the House of Debt | House of Debt2016-02-07T04:06:08+00:00
http://houseofdebt.org/2014/08/08/more-evidence-supporting-the-house-of-debt.html
asterisk2asecular stagnation consumer debt mortgage market household USA UK recovery GFC credit card servitude debtoverhang Richard Koo student loan Super Cycle monetisation monetization private fiscal policy monetary book marginal propensity to consume consumerist consumerism zombie discretionary spending disposable income negative equity job creation precarious work Precariat low pay Service Sector Jobs job-creation squeezed middle class Elizabeth Warren distribution inequality Gini coefficient mobility social American Dream post-racial America Joseph Stiglitz Thomas Piketty Paul Krugman part-time Zero Hour Contract Contractor growth economic history Rich 1% austerity oligarchy plutocracy stimulus budget deficit corporate welfare tax avoidance evasion rate subsidies subsidizing state safety net western world trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal Chicago School bubble liquidity trap balance sheet recession deleveraginghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:06c25199c96d/Nasty Gal Layoffs Hit 10 Percent of Staff | Re/code2016-02-06T03:00:13+00:00
http://recode.net/2016/02/04/online-fashion-retailer-nasty-gal-cuts-10-percent-of-staff/
asterisk2aNasty Gal Branding Brand e-commerce Retail pure play Amazon brick and mortar business squeezed middle class discretionary spending disposable income USA consumption consumer debt household credit card car loan student Bubble low pay Precariat precarious work eBay zombie Primark status symbol anxiety consumerist consumerism secular stagnation servitude retirement pension scheme 401k fiscal policy austerity monetary reflate reflation economic history recovery job creation Service Sector Jobs emerging western world BRIC market Frontier Marketshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3a3844cc69b9/Christine Lagarde: Housing is key issue for security of UK economy - BBC News2016-02-05T02:10:05+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35069521
asterisk2aUK Housing Crisis property bubble generation rent speculative bubbles Buy to macroprudential policy fiscal planning law monetary mortgage market austerity budget deficit neoliberalism IMF OECD neoliberal trickle-down economics economic history ChristineLagarde Privatisation affordable social discretionary spending disposable income consumer debt household credit card car loan secular stagnation wage squeezed middle class Precariat working poor job creation Service Sector Jobs low pay minimum Zero Hour Contract part-time Contractor recovery productivity output gap servitude debtoverhang liquidity trap Richard Koohttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f325ae9bc951/Amid market turmoil and confusion, there are four key economic trends shaping society2016-02-03T03:46:29+00:00
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2016/02/amid-market-turmoil-and-confusion-there-are-four-key-economic-trends
asterisk2aeconomic history secular stagnation inflation targeting nominal GDP fiscal policy monetary wage growth squeezed middle class job creation Service Sector Jobs low pay income minimum UK Mark Carney austerity tax credit housing benefit working debt servitude Super Cycle Richard Koo liquidity trap transmission mechanism stimulus debtoverhang balance sheet recession deleveraging household consumer card western world disposable discretionary spending distribution Gini coefficient Rich 1% inequality redistribution evasion avoidance system theory student loan Bubble monetisation monetization zombie banks velocity Niall Ferguson NPL junk bond corporations ZIRP NIRP QE Taper China BRIC output gap productivity industrial public investment productive business infrastructure property financial repression speculative bubbles asset allocation Generationengerechtigkeit fairness money supply faultlines global imbalances recovery poor Precariathttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:278a3a2dced1/Will easyFoodstore be the next easyJet – or the next easyCruise? | Business | The Guardian2016-02-02T19:41:26+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/02/will-easyfoodstore-be-the-next-easyjet-or-easycruise
asterisk2aausterity poverty UK disposable income discretionary spending precarious work Precariat working poor low squeezed middle class pay minimum wage recovery Food Bank business model opportunity Opportunism Lidl Aldi e-commerce Retail brick and mortar Primark Fast Fashion Tescohttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1d4982c01588/Aberdeen and Edinburgh highlighted in city economies report - BBC News2016-01-25T17:45:37+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35395876
asterisk2a> It argued that nearly a million new jobs had been created in cities since 2010 - but that the average salary had also dropped by £1,300 per resident. 'High-wage, low-welfare' << [...] The think tank said the two areas' ability to attract high-skilled jobs - in the oil and professional services industries for example - was the key to their success. It argued that cities with high wages had seen faster jobs growth, with employment rising by 10% since 2010, compared with 3% in low-wage cities. [...] [ Housing Crisis across the country thus ] increased housing benefit payments.]]>job creation recovery Service Sector Jobs UK austerity minimum wage living George Osborne neoliberalism neoliberal Manufacturing macroeconomic policy microeconomic low pay income tax credit child working free progressive code distribution disposable discretionary spending inequality growth secular stagnation globalization globalisation borderless flat world economic history nasty party Tories Conservative trickle-down economics squeezed middle class precarious work Precariat redistribution welfare state social safety net David Cameron budget2015 budget2010 Public Services added value Housing Crisis affordablehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0b7ccb626c4b/This Is What Janet Yellen Thinks Is The "Worst-Case Scenario" For The U.S. | Zero Hedge2016-01-17T14:52:22+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/what-janet-yellen-thought-worst-case-scenario-us
asterisk2aJanet Yellen Japan secular stagnation deflationary deflation debtoverhang debt servitude consumer household credit card squeezed middle class working poor Precariat precarious work Zero Hour Contract part-time disposable income discretionary spending economic history Abenomics equity bubble bail-in speculative bubbles distortion ZIRP NIRP QEhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e2d5331a9860/"Markets Crash When They're Oversold" | Zero Hedge2016-01-15T14:51:43+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-14/markets-crash-when-theyre-oversold
asterisk2aOil price shale gas fracking job creation USA 2016 Service Sector Jobs Manufacturing globalization globalisation neoliberalism neoliberal borderless flat world economic history UK low income wage stagnation growth disposable discretionary spending consumer debt squeezed middle class household property bubble working poor precarious work Precariat security market jobcreation job-creation recovery GFC dogma ideology austerity tax evasion avoidance corporate welfare subsidies subsidizing lobbyist lobby Lobbying trade agreement TPP TTIP NAFTA CETA European Union sovereign crisis credit China BRIC structural imbalance global imbalances faultlines 2015 presidency barackobama ZIRP NIRP QE George Osborne private debtoverhang servitude student loan card car liquidity trap Richard Koo balance sheet recession deleveraginghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:2749ea59115c/Börse: Warum Schwellenländer für die Kurskrise sorgen - Kolumne - SPIEGEL ONLINE2016-01-15T13:23:25+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/wolfgang-muenchau-ueber-die-stimmung-der-maerkte-kolumne-a-1072145.html
asterisk2atrade deficit BRIC credit bubble western world secular stagnation macroeconomic policy China Japan Germany UK USA Brazil commodity prices Oil price NPL shadow banking economy crisis ZIRP NIRP QE QT speculative bubbles property mortgage market Fed BOE ECB European Union sovereign debt household consumer card car loan private corporate tax evasion avoidance austerity welfare subsidies subsidizing Russia OPEC aggregate demand liquidity trap Richard Koo Richardkoo debtoverhang balance sheet recession servitude student Super Cycle monetisation monetization discretionary spending disposable income squeezed middle class precarious work Precariat working poor neoliberalism neoliberal globalization globalisation borderless flat agreement Hegemony TPP TTIP TISA CETA NAFTA Africa South global current account Frontier Markets faultlines structural imbalance imbalances Taper reflate reflation equity Abenomics economic history India irrational exuberance Robert Shiller inequality Gini coefficient deflationaryhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6c0fffb624b9/Plan to end student grants without Commons vote outrages opposition | Politics | The Guardian2016-01-14T05:45:34+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/13/plan-to-end-student-grants-without-commons-vote-outrages-opposition
asterisk2asocial mobility income Gini coefficient household debt discretionary spending disposable student loan Bubble poverty trap child tax credit education policy post code lottery affordable housing University College Maintenance Allowance Grant NHS Bursaries Career Politicians No Representation democracy bank bailout austerity GFC fairness Generationengerechtigkeit budget2015 nasty party Tories Conservative George Osborne David Cameron Manifesto general election 2015 campaign promises babyboomers Super Cycle 2016 servitude consumer card debtoverhang fiscal economic history moral beliefs ethics Toff Privileged Establishment inequality Rich 1% plutocracy oligarchy squeezed middle class working poor Precariat Crisis cost of living lowhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:eed03123c00b/Housing crisis hits 1960s levels as tenants battle to cope, says Shelter | Society | The Guardian2016-01-10T03:47:13+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/09/housing-crisis-tenants-shelter-private-rent
asterisk2aUK Housing Crisis affordable social poverty trap disposable income discretionary spending precarious work Precariat Zero Hour Contract working poor low minimum wage Gini coefficient austerity David Cameron George Osborne underinvestment unemployment long-term youth structural job creation Service Sector Jobs tax credit child free Privatisation Council inequality post code lottery health commuting safety net DWP Iain Duncan Smith bedroomhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4e7a9aced915/Why are UK train tickets more expensive than in Europe? - BBC News2016-01-04T18:11:41+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35219018
asterisk2apublic transportation UK disposable income discretionary spending working poor commuting Precariat squeezed middle class generation rent living expenseshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0da8bc674989/The roof is being fixed but beware the house crashing beneath it | Business | The Guardian2015-12-07T16:51:19+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/06/geiorge-osborne-roof-being-fixed-beware-house-crash-beneath
asterisk2ahousehold debt consumer zombie recovery credit card materialism status anxiety USA UK Super Cycle debtoverhang mortgage market Housing Crisis servitude NPL property bubble speculative bubbles ZIRP NIRP QE BOE Buy-to-Let Help to Buy Scheme Right student loan private economic growth GFC fiscal policy austerity industrial underinvestment productive investment competitive competitiveness George Osborne dogma ideology neoliberalism neoliberal David Cameron Tories nasty party Conservative history energy price STEM Manufacturing diversity microeconomic macroeconomic Amber Rudd monetisation monetization secular stagnation disposable income discretionary spending squeezed middle class working poor consumerist consumerism trickle-down economics symbol affordable social budget2015 marginal propensity consume Precariat taxhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:4cf73408ad58/Robert Reich - Timeline Photos2015-10-31T06:08:52+00:00
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/photos/a.404595876219681.103599.142474049098533/1094559053890023/?type=3
asterisk2aUSA job creation recovery industrial policy wage growth stagnation UK western society world secular squeezed middle class Sozialer Abstieg income economic disposable distribution mobility inequality redistribution social Gini coefficient Super Rich 1% discretionary spending zombie consumer credit card debt car loan 2015 GFC reflate reflation globalization globalisation flat borderless competitive competitiveness competition low pay labour market economics Service Sector Jobs Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor precarious work Precariat working poor Joseph Stiglitz Robert Reich poverty child food trap generationy babyboomers participation rate manual Millennials retirement mainstreet Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value tax evasion avoidance capital gains corporate dogma ideology neoliberalism neoliberal republicans democrats public awareness perception American Dream post-racial America justice fairness bank bailout TBTF too big to jail bail Generationengerechtigkeit budget deficit austerity populism rhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:85a278cb12b9/Matthew Hancock ripped apart on Tax Credits, welfare, etc. (05Oct15) - YouTube2015-10-12T19:43:26+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuPBIAOwP9Y
asterisk2achild tax credit working budget2015 George Osborne David Cameron Tories austerity fairness Generationengerechtigkeit Conservative Party neoliberalism neoliberal minimum wage living Labour general election 2015 campaign promises constituency poor poverty trap precarious work low income Precariat PR reframing framing spin doctor welfare state social safety net DWP Iain Duncan Smith NHS Jeremy Hunt fiscal policy bank bailout justice injustice morality Career Politicians No Representation free part-time Zero Hour Contract Contractor political theory distribution Super Rich 1% evasion avoidance inequality Gini coefficient food mobility Education Maintenance Allowance Student Grant Loan Bubble disposable discretionary spending stagnation growth productivity output gap recovery reflate reflation monetary subsidies subsidizing democracyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:3951c40e0c1a/More jobs paying below living wage - BBC News2015-10-12T13:32:10+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34505114
asterisk2aNiedriglohnsektor job creation market Lohnzurückhaltung lohndumping low income Service Sector Jobs working poor precarious work Precariat Zero Hour Contract Contractor self-employment labour economics recovery UK disposable discretionary spending security poverty trap child food Gini coefficient social mobility distribution inequality redistribution budget2015 tax credit free minimum wage living Education Maintenance Allowance Student Grant Higher policy post code lottery vocational professional career ladder austerity George Osborne 2015 dogma ideology Tories neoliberalism neoliberal Conservative Party PR spin doctor reframing framing Positioning David Cameron Iain Duncan Smith DWPhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6ed373ccb812/The Billionaire Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor - YouTube2015-10-07T20:05:11+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQRalealbI
asterisk2atrickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal job creation labour market USA Gini coefficient tax code corporate rate evasion avoidance Wall Street globalization globalisation free trade Service Sector Jobs conglomerate competitiveness competition competitive wage stagnation income growth Middle Class squeezed Sozialer Abstieg distribution disposable discretionary spending inequality American Dream NAFTA TTIP TPP philanthropy TISA Super Rich 1% Niedriglohnsektor security social mobility economic history Union Workers self-regulation regulation deregulation regulators lobbyist profit maximisation shareholder value lobby Lobbying welfare state safety net precarious work Precariat working poor outsourcing Manufacturing China Gesellschaft society Policy Makers Zero Hour Contract part-time underemployed unemployment long-term youth structural secular Niall Fergusonhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8c28513fc9f0/Huge pension shortfall facing UK's young adults | Money | The Guardian2015-09-30T13:47:20+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/30/huge-pension-shortfall-facing-uks-young-adults
asterisk2aretirement savings rate glut disposable income discretionary spending pension scheme squeezed middle class wage stagnation growth gap distribution inequality low Sozialer Abstieg working poor Precariat precarious work financial literacy zombie consumer consumerism consumerist materialism status anxiety babyboomers generationy Millennials symbol consumption debt household private student loan Bubble secular competitive competition competitiveness globalization globalisation flat world borderlesshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:cf6983e47f74/Homelessness figures: Nearly 100,000 children in England 'homeless' - BBC News2015-09-27T11:56:39+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34346908
asterisk2aUK property bubble Supply and Demand affordable housing social Gini coefficient Generationengerechtigkeit generation rent poverty trap child food austerity Policy Makers dogma ideology neoliberalism neoliberal Tories Conservative Party market Crisis benefit benefits welfare state safety net bank bailout fairness cohesion minority constituency error folly babyboomers tension Toff Establishment Privileged Entitlement general election 2015 campaign promises Help to Buy Scheme excess reserves mortgage Buy-to-Let Right Wall Street shareholder value profit maximisation inequality Funding for Lending macroprudential macroeconomic microeconomics disposable income discretionary spending debtoverhang household debt recovery consumer servitude private Payday Loans Student Loan Millennials generationy secular stagnation low prevention job security labour Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs creation mobility downward precarious work Precariat working poor University vocational education professional Maintenance Allowanchttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b95871470448/UK productivity lags behind rest of G7 - BBC News2015-09-21T23:48:03+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34289704
asterisk2aUK productivity recovery output gap western world secular stagnation deflationary deflation Niall Ferguson competitive competitiveness BRIC education policy job market creation Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs precarious work Precariat working poor disposable income discretionary spending distribution growth low Gini coefficient mobility social inequality poverty trap austerity business confidence investment budget2015 differentiate differentiation vocational professional Future of Software Is Eating The marginal cost propensity to consume trickle-down economics abundance underinvestment infrastructure STEM Research R&D labour manual Tories Conservative Party macroprudential macroeconomic microeconomichttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8bd7b0aad023/BBC News - A history of social housing2015-09-06T12:42:40+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14380936
asterisk2a> bbc.in/1FR9JAh - The UK has a serious shortage of affordable homes. Lesley Curwen asks whether the current system - where councils do deals with developers to provide cheaper homes - is working. [...] in transparent, not accountable, no inclusion of community/tax payer. abuse of the system & situation. writing their own rules. knowing they have the leverage/upper hand due to the shortage and pressure put on councils by public due to shortage. the new-smaller bankster! Out come additional/more cost for everyone due all this. This is not a market. This is a one way game, again. Like the bank bailout was. either you bail us out on our conditions or you go down with us. // &! Why can't the UK build 240,000 houses a year? - bbc.in/1xjHHTi // &! bit.ly/17zBXQv - The housing crisis in charts &! bit.ly/1Nboz5Y &! bit.ly/1t4PWYh]]>social housing affordable UK austerity Tories Conservative Party neoliberalism neoliberal exploitation lobbyist lobby Lobbying homeownership Generationengerechtigkeit generation rent fairness Career Politicians No Representation contract working poor Precariat Help to Buy Scheme shared economic interest disposable income discretionary spending long-term view thinking property bubble mortgage market 2015 segregation cleansing gentrification Gentrified urban planning urbanisation cohesion tension political theory wage stagnation growth history Supply and Demand bureaucracyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:89b7c484dd24/Vince Cable: ‘Historically, the coalition will be seen as a success’ – interview | Politics | The Guardian2015-09-05T12:38:34+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/05/vince-cable-historically-coalition-will-be-seen-as-success
asterisk2aGeorge Osborne David Cameron Career Politicians No Representation social contract political theory austerity Tories Conservative Party Toff Establishment Privileged Generationengerechtigkeit fairness Liberal Democrats UK policy folly error budget2015 underinvestment R&D STEM Research productive investment infrastructure public business productivity output gap Richard Koo economic history trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal Gini coefficient child poverty trap DWP Iain Duncan Smith income mobility inequality London bank bailout self-regulation deregulation banking tax evasion avoidance Opportunism opportunist short-term corporate rate Super Rich 1% babyboomers education free working poor precarious work Precariat credit housing affordable asset bubble property equity 2015 generation rent student loan debt disposable discretionary spending household job creation Service Sector Jobs Niedriglohnsektor self-employment general election campaign promises class warfare secular stagnation recovery GFC soverhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b4d1091de85f/Thom Hartmann "The Crash of 2016" - YouTube2015-09-03T06:07:20+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039Zh9KBCqY
asterisk2aAmerican Dream inequality democracy meritocracy meritocratic USA Gini coefficient social mobility income education policy neoliberalism neoliberal Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value globalization globalisation Robert Reich productivity output gap working poor precarious work Precariat outsourcing Zeitarbeit Leiharbeit part-time squeezed middle class Sozialer Abstieg skill-biased technological change progress Skidelsky Joseph Stiglitz wage growth crony capitalism Super Rich 1% lost generation decade GFC recovery western world developed dot.com reflate reflation credit bubble monetary fiscal austerity bank bailout Generationengerechtigkeit fairness standard of living student loan babyboomers debt disposable discretionary spending zombie consumer status anxiety trickle-down economics economic history labour market job creation security capital gains tax lobbyist lobby Lobbying Career Politicians No Representation contract Gesellschaft Lügenpresse election campaign promises manufactured consenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:90b4d59eb04b/Number of workers on zero-hours contracts up by 19% | UK news | The Guardian2015-09-03T04:38:28+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/02/number-of-workers-on-zero-hours-contracts-up-by-19
asterisk2aUK working poor tax credit child code Zero Hour Contract Contractor precarious work Precariat labour market neoliberalism neoliberal deregulation Wall Street on-demand Marketplace shareholder value profit maximisation living wage national minimum budget2015 George Osborne Tories Toff Privileged Establishment Conservative Party austerity fairness Generationengerechtigkeit job creation economics manual Service Sector Jobs Services Industry economy recovery disposable income discretionary spending exploitation poverty trap food 2015 stagnation growth secular deflationary deflation squeezed middle class Sozialer Abstieg mobility social Gini coefficient GFC part-time underemployed globalization globalisation self-regulation lobbyist lobby Lobbying regulation regulators Workers Union insecurity uncertaintyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:407258bbfecc/Global economic growth to slow, NIESR predicts - BBC News2015-08-05T14:44:11+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33772947
asterisk2aUK 2015 recovery deflationary deflation secular stagnation productivity output gap fiscal policy austerity stimulus industrial George Osborne short-term thinking view budget deficit current account David Cameron Tories dogma ideology Career Politicians No Representation Taper STEM folly error Makers education microeconomic macroeconomic globalisation globalization flat world borderless job creation Service Sector Jobs precarious work Zero Hour Contract Contractor Niedriglohnsektor minimum wage living Manufacturing added value ecosystem vocational professional apprenticeships competitive competitiveness advantage neoliberalism neoliberal Lohnzurückhaltung disposable income discretionary spending working poor squeezed middle class Precariathttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:54a4faa1aeb0/Yellen: There's Still Slack in Labor Markets - YouTube2015-07-19T18:09:52+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGIH7pLMrI
asterisk2a> signs that a debt fuelled recovery doesn't fix the long standing (since 90's 2000's post dot.com) underlying fundamentals of an economy. // low wage low productivity jobs especially part-time and minimum wage - doe not have an economic multiplier as a whole, they cost the economy or are at least net-net 0. // it is the same in UK. and signs show in Germany as well. // &! subprime was one of many predatory lending practices to financial illiterate ppl and exploitation of the underbanked/unbanked, and banks also choose to charge minorities higher interest rates - youtu.be/CbW9mH7p_8E + and add also practices of Payday Loans. Those things are a symptoms of the system at large. Resulting in the Poverty Trap.]]>USA labour economics market participation rate skills gap underemployed part-time 2015 education policy vocational social mobility downward self-employment Gini coefficient squeezed middle class long-term unemployment youth employabilitie employability structural imbalance Impediments secular stagnation output productivity recovery GFC competitiveness competitive globalisation globalization borderless flat world fiscal monetary debt monetisation monetization economic history infrastructure investment Makers Career Politicians No Representation Sozialer Abstieg Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs Zeitarbeit Leiharbeit Zero Hour Contract Contractor precarious work Precariat working poor growth trickle-down damage model shared interest view thinking short-term Opportunism opportunist folly error microeconomic job creation security Minijob Aufstocker minimum wage living disposable income savings discretionary spending well being dot.com UK Lohnzurückhaltung lohndumping mindestlohn inequality capihttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8dd343efc2ac/Davos 2015: Nouriel Roubini says Income Inequality Creates U.S. Plutocracy - YouTube2015-07-14T18:28:40+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Vv13XZ5Us
asterisk2aplutocracy Gini coefficient income mobility social American Dream inequality squeezed middle class economic growth USA history wage UK recovery secular stagnation job market creation labour economics STEM productivity Lohnzurückhaltung Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs precarious work Precariat working poor security Contractor Zero Hour Contract part-time underemployed skills gap Zeitarbeit Leiharbeit manual value added knowledge worker Blue-collar White-collar minimum living disposable discretionary spending industrial policy fiscal Higher Education vocational Sozialer Abstieg liberal reform neoliberal neoliberalism trickle-down stimulus public investment competitiveness competitive infrastructure borderless flat world globalisation globalization austerity fairness tax evasion code avoidance profit maximisation shareholder Wall Street crony capitalism GFC gender poverty trap child democracy short-term thinking view long-term employability lost decade generation youth unemployment Career Pohttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:63c0482da7eb/UK's inflation rate falls to 0% - BBC News2015-07-14T11:13:34+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33518710
asterisk2a> Carney: Current account deficit is a risk highlighted by FPC. UK is relying on the kindness of strangers to finance current account deficit. Household borrowing isn't driving the deficit Tighter fiscal policy is needed. Tighter macroeconomic policy is needed also. Deficit highlights importance of maintaining the attractiveness of the UK for foreign investment // &! bit.ly/1I07olT - BOE's Miles doesn't see secular stagnation in the UK [...] Carney - Health of the financial system is likely to boost productivity [really?] [...] McCafferty: Low income jobs have kept productivity low &! bit.ly/1JfaSxr - Bank is looking at the household sensitivity to rate rises [ mortgage bubble will prevent BOE to raise rates faster as demand stokes as more disposable income is spend on serving interest payments thus depressing GDP growth bc 70% of it is consumer spending ] &! bit.ly/1HtySg1]]>current account deficit UK Mark Carney austerity fairness sovereign debt crisis ZIRP NIRP QE unintended consequences unknown unkown asset bubble equity property George Osborne productivity output gap industrial policy STEM Higher Education added value fiscal Public infrastructure investment recovery economic history competitiveness competitive globalisation globalization flat world borderless deflationary deflation secular stagnation zombie banks Service Sector Jobs job creation market labour economics skills vocational working poor precarious work Precariat squeezed middle class Zero Hour Contract Contractor disposable income discretionary spending household Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor underemployed self-employment employability part-time mortgage BOE 2015 macroprudential macroeconomic microeconomic Manufacturing stimulus Taper USA negative real interest rate interestrate servicing payment consumerhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:62534518b4d4/Can we ever really expect to see the growth of the past again? - Telegraph2015-06-28T19:18:49+00:00
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11305888/Can-we-ever-really-expect-to-see-the-growth-of-the-past-again.html
asterisk2a> what kind of jobs have been created since 2009? no high productivity/output jobs with marginal costs for each additional unit produced. those just fill in some gap. but do not add to above par economic output (blue ocean) // dot.com recovery was debt fuelled. GFC recovery was debt fuelled. // monetary policy might have saved the world momentarily, but fiscal policy did not put logs and pillars under the world, their respective economies - being prudent - looking long-term raising competitiveness with skilled workforce. things are now as a whole, as wobbily as they were 2009/10. Period.]]>secular stagnation Taper output gap productivity western world UK USA deflationary Europe structural imbalance Impediments underemployed labour market economics Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs job creation economic history recovery GFC dot.com policy folly error education vocational Future of Work Mobile Creatives Creative competitiveness competitive globalisation globalization flat borderless abundance marginal cost damage microeconomic long-term view thinking employability unemployment asset bubble ZIRP NIRP QE workforce austerity IMF OECD growth lost decade generation disposable income discretionary spending squeezed middle class precarious Precariat Zeitarbeit Leiharbeit Minijob working poor Gini coefficient mobility downward social Super Rich 1% Sozialer Abstieg Existenzangst demographic sovereign debt crisis debtoverhang balance sheet recession savings glut deleveraging Career Politicianshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:cae404e62c4e/Headline Numbers: How do you measure inequality? - BBC News2015-05-21T18:24:39+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32815092
asterisk2ainequality Gini coefficient income growth minimum wage Niedriglohnsektor working poor precarious work Precariat Zeitarbeit Werkvertrag Leiharbeit Western World bonuses bonus compensation package 1% Super Rich squeezed middle class Blue-collar Worker tax code taxation evasion avoidance living standard of disposable discretionary spending UK USA GDP Service Sector Jobs Share Economy knowledge Mobile Creatives Creative Future Industrial Revolution 2.0 Software Is Eating The competition differentiate differentiation borderless flat globalisation globalization capital gains Wall Street recovery ZIRP NIRP QE TARP POMO bailout Career Politicians No Representation democracy lobbyist lobby Lobbying Workers Union presidency barackobama revolving door Washington trust confidence poverty child in old age food distribution mobility redistribution downward social austerity welfare state Services Public safety net IMF OECD GFC tension cohesionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:fd27d6b3fe32/Revealed: hitlist of welfare cuts facing Britain's next chancellor | Politics | The Guardian2015-05-14T22:17:48+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/05/revealed-coalition-plans-to-slash-welfare-for-sick-poor-young-and-disabled
asterisk2aausterity Public Services Social maternity pay welfare state safety net UK David Cameron Conservative Party budget deficit No Representation Gini coefficient mobility income squeezed middle class tax credit working poor low precarious work Precariat Zero Hour Contract contractor Workers Union uncertainty Proletariat Toff Establishment Privileged discretionary spending disposable growth living wage standard of cost minimum underemployed self-employment education policy vocational Blue-collar Worker White-collar knowledge fiscal Disabled poverty in old age child food gesellschaft cohesion tension demagogue demagogy fear opportunist Opportunism security fairness recovery GFC inequality capital gains society culture Spin Doctor solidarity benefithttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:abfd11eab773/Macroeconomics Causes of Inequality - YouTube2015-05-14T18:02:26+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgBa4JINL6I
asterisk2a> free child care, health care, limit exploitation of financial illiterate people (% interest on pay day loans, overdraft charges, dispo), public services, social services, pension contribution by state (preventing poverty at old age), tax credits for low income and children and carers, free education and vocational education/continual education - enabling to move up the ladder, // min11 - secular stagnation post GFC compared to previous recessions in terms of real household demand (balance sheet recession, debt overhang, deleveraging (debt repayment), and lack of new issuance of consumer credit I guess, too + rising income equality! lower redistribution from top to bottom (fair taxation) reduces recycling of income (freed up by policy items above) into demand. // min 18 - top 5% society (luxury, vanity, status) takes over bottom 80% society in aggregate terms of consumption. Economy driven by WHOM?! Affluent!]]>income inequality social mobility vocational education policy Gini coefficient Makers squeezed middle class working poor precarious work Precariat savings Proletariat economic model trickle-down economics macroeconomic growth Super Rich 1% tax free Universal Basic credit code avoidance evasion consumption consumerist consumer creation budget deficit exploitation shareholder value Niedriglohn Niedriglohnsektor Lohnzurückhaltung lohndumping Zeitarbeit Leiharbeit Zero Hour Contract productivity Werkvertrag disposable discretionary spending contractor outsourcing fairness unrecht bailout Career Politicians gender pay gap folly error Soziale Marktwirtschaft Blue-collar Worker White-collar knowledge GFC debtoverhang balance sheet recession liquidity trap deleveraging secular stagnation austerity UK USA history recovery fiscal stimulus Schuldenbremse Pact Western World Europe deflationary debt confidence dot.com Privileged Establishment convenience on-demand innovation Silicon Valley wealth distribution redistribhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b3e9b4912f27/Income Inequality: Do the 1% Innovate More? - YouTube2015-05-10T14:40:55+00:00
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asterisk2ainequality income Gini coefficient 1% Super Rich capital gains lobbyist lobby Lobbying No Representation Washington revolving door disposable discretionary spending wage stagnation secular squeezed middle class working poor unintended consequences book precarious work Precariat Leiharbeit Werkvertrag Zeitarbeit contractor Zero Hour Contract self-employment trickle-down economics Wall Street Career Politicians short-term thinking view American Dream Western World economic history productive investmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:806d9de42269/