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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aBank of England’s 'slack' approach leaves economy at risk - Telegraph2014-06-11T10:57:44+00:00
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/10838393/Bank-of-Englands-slack-approach-leaves-economy-at-risk.html
asterisk2aproperty bubble asset hunt for yield Help to Buy Scheme Funding Lending Mark Carney BOE macroprudential policy macroeconomic microeconomic monetary stimulus fiscal GeorgeOsborne David Cameron George Osborne 2014 2015 general election UK unintended consequences unknown unknowns IMF Structural Impediments imbalance Supply and Demand productivity skill-biased technological change capital skills skill knowledge worker White-collar Blue-collar workforce Mobile Creative Creatives globalisation globalization Why Software Is Eating the World Flat competitive advantage competitiveness comparative-advantage comparative Year of Code practical sethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:bbf2a0840d9c/Election results 2014: Ukip blames London election performance on difficulty appealing to the 'educated and cultured' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent2014-05-23T21:32:51+00:00
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-blames-london-election-performance-on-difficulty-appealing-to-the-educated-and-cultural-9423200.html
asterisk2a> What do the council results mean for the 2015 general election? It is not easy to extrapolate from local election results, but these ones could suggest Labour falling just short of a working majority http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/23/what-council-results-mean-2015-general-election ||| + London is Ukip's worst nightmare The local election results highlight how out-of-step London attitudes pose a serious dilemma for Labour and Tories ""LONDON is metropolitan elite concerned chiefly with itself."" - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/23/london-ukip-nightmare-labout-tories-local-elections-farage || +++ http://bbc.in/1qZCqn1]]>UKIP general election 2015 UK Council 2014 Ed Miliband Labour Party Conservative Liberal Democrats Politics campaign promises London economies of agglomeration Gini coefficient social mobility income job creation market economic divide jobmarket jobcreation skill-biased technological change knowledge worker White-collar Blue-collar Mobile Creative Creatives productivity comparative advantage comparative-advantage competitive competitiveness Nigel Farage davidcameron GeorgeOsborne austerity fiscal policy monetary Nick Clegg Career Politicians PPE society Europe immigration David Cameronhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f0923cd1e899/BBC News - When will the UK pay its way in the world?2014-05-15T21:49:58+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27427398
asterisk2a> Now what was a little worrying was that the deficit on the current account reached 5.6% of GDP, or economic output, in the third quarter of 2013 and fell to just a little bit lower, 5.4%, in the fourth quarter. That 5.6% was - ahem - something of a milestone: it was the biggest quarterly deficit since records began in 1955. And it explains why the record aggregate indebtedness of the UK has been falling so slowly, and is still not much below 500% of GDP on the Mckinsey measure (though see my previous blog). [...] UK's - limp trading performance - for YEARS! ... COMPETING against BRICs, Europe, G8, ... now and in the future competing with MINT countries too ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINT_countries ). [...] "We have not got forever to reconstruct our economy and become a bit more like the European export emperor, Germany."]]>UK Debt Super Cycle zombie corporations banks consumer sovereign crisis private bubble jubilee monetization household public debtoverhang monetisation restructuring austerity current account deficit economic history 2014 fiscal policy monetary Mark Carney davidcameron GeorgeOsborne financial repression New Normal QE ZIRP NIRP hunt for yield deflationary productivity output gap competitiveness knowledge worker skill-biased technological change skill capital skills London White-collar Blue-collar Mobile Creative Creatives value creation Industrial globalisation globalization competitive advantage comparative 21stcentury BRIC MINT Europe free trade Germany exports exporthttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ee59158ee045/Pfizer and AstraZeneca: Deal or no deal | The Economist2014-05-15T17:44:06+00:00
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21601868-future-britains-drugs-industry-depends-more-merger-deal-or-no-deal
asterisk2a> once you are a public company, your options to facilitate growth are hugely curtailed do to the short-term thinking of money, crony capitalism >> Wall Street. /// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Pfizer_takeover_bid + http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27391124 + http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27309851 | BRITISH INTEREST IS & SHOULD BE MARKET PLURALITY. From May 7th. http://bit.ly/QNgGtz - 7 days later http://bit.ly/1k5sGCg | this case; fiduciary responsibility = short-term thinking]]>market plurality Pfizer AstraZeneca UK big pharma pharmaceutical industry oligopol oligopoly crony capitalism corporate governance WallStreet growth though acquisition M&A mergers merger through Career Politicians business management short-term thinking long-term public policy antitrust Competition collusion research medical health trust trustagent confidence Science R&D European Commission Europe regulators regulation transparency accountability davidcameron general election 2015 GeorgeOsborne Lobbying lobbyist lobby interest groups national job productivity skill-biased technological change skill skills capital knowledge worker White-collar Blue-collar Mobile Creative Creatives fiduciary responsibility greed stakeholder shareholder unknown unknowns unintended consequences complexity human progress humanity post-antibiotic era external threats externalaties externalityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:19ee3fe76d5e/