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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aRevealed: warning to ministers over privatised water kept secret since 2002 | Water | The Guardian2023-05-20T12:12:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/20/revealed-warning-to-ministers-over-privatised-water-kept-secret-since-2002
asterisk2aUK water sewage Privatisation public service utility monopolyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:18f622d94609/Dr Niki Rust đ» on Twitter: "I'm coming up to 1.5 years working at the science-policy interface for the UK Civil Service. What have I learnt about using evidence to inform policy? A thread https://t.co/UqOzpD2Ucw" / Twitter2022-11-04T07:01:05+00:00
https://twitter.com/NikiRust/status/1588068100443865090
asterisk2acivil servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:90285e8993ce/(68) Majority of UK modern slavery victims are children, report says - YouTube2020-07-13T19:09:11+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2MEDRs7zGQ
asterisk2aAusterity Police Council Social Service abuse exploitation Home Office UK trafficking drugs groominghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b766e051990c/(4) Jeff Colgan â Politics of the Coronavirus - YouTube2020-04-08T14:58:25+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgt4CiJ87GU&t=27s
asterisk2aPolitics COVID19 Pandemic Civil Servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f63c05a7b136/The Trump Administration Is Corrupting the U.S. Government - The Atlantic2020-03-08T05:24:45+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/how-to-destroy-a-government/606793/
asterisk2aDonaldTrump Donald Trump civil servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6aff12098833/London Bridge attacker had asked for help to deradicalise - lawyer | UK news | The Guardian2019-11-30T22:24:06+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/30/london-bridge-attacker-had-asked-for-help-to-deradicalise-lawyer
asterisk2aUK Prison Austerity Privatisation Probation Service Usman Khanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:461a401fc18f/Capitalismâs Crisis of Stagnation and Austerity2018-02-17T08:38:23+00:00
https://libcom.org/blog/crisis-stagnation-austerity
asterisk2aKapital Capital productivity Austerity economic history secular stagnation demand output gap UK USA Germany income growth debt bubble inflation service QE monetary fiscal policy underinvestment Exploitation atomisedhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c6b68ddd0fac/Homebase owners may close up to 40 stores - BBC News2018-02-05T19:17:54+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42942922
asterisk2aUK Brexit disposable income economy discretionary spending growth wage Productivity High Street Precariat working poor poverty trap social mobility pay rise inflation broke household debt credit card leverage recovery secular stagnation history GFC Austerity underinvestment output gap HighStreet Services Servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:815bc67075a4/UK health services could 'learn lessons' from Scottish NHS - BBC News2017-07-05T12:42:56+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40494488
asterisk2aNHS Scotland Grampian Austerity health care demand demographic bubble ageing chronic sick population Transgender mental LGBT medical advances cancer CVD diabetes obesity overweight Stroke dementia Alzheimer adult elderly service Council Shona Robison rationing waiting times GP A&E referralhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a32a9ec65d17/Bank of England orders financial firms to draft Brexit contingency plans | Business | The Guardian2017-04-07T14:58:05+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/07/brexit-city-europe-carney-bank-of-england-uk-eu
asterisk2aBrexit BOE Mark Carney City of London banking insurance finance service law passporting tax evasion avoidance HMRC money launderinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b50bd8b110aa/STEVE KEEN on Private Debt - YouTube2017-03-03T23:24:33+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdoG8aj3_FE&t=1s
asterisk2aUK London Margaret Thatcher private debt Consumer household mortgage GFC recovery Brexit discretionary spending disposable income reflate reflation ZIRP NIRP QE Austerity service sector working poor squeezed middle class leverage economic history living standard wage growth mobility social inequality Gini Coefficient tax evasion avoidance HMRC payday loan trickle-down Tories nasty party Conservative George Osborne David Cameron JAM Theresa May Philip Hammond IMF OECD neoliberalism crony capitalism Exploitation corporatism Consumerism materialism GDP underinvestment ROI BOE Mark Carney Steve Keen bookhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:2a800b10bb85/Record 910,000 UK workers on zero-hours contracts | Business | The Guardian2017-03-03T22:46:47+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/03/zero-hours-contracts-uk-record-high
asterisk2azero hour contract gig economy HMRC DWP tax credit taxcredit minimum wage Mindestlohn national insurance productivity service sector UK Germany NI underemployed Self-Employment part-time Universalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6f42d3ef8576/CPS accused of failing domestic violence victims after woman loses eye in attack | Society | The Guardian2017-01-28T08:03:42+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/27/cps-accused-of-failing-domestic-violence-victims-after-woman-loses-eye-in-attack
asterisk2aUK Justice Austerity rationing nasty party Tories Conservative Legal Aid Public Service NHShttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:1d1a2e8c2d68/Neue Antibiotika: Pharmaindustrie vernachlÀssigt Forschung - SPIEGEL ONLINE2017-01-26T03:56:27+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/neue-antibiotika-pharmaindustrie-vernachlaessigt-forschung-a-1131480.html
asterisk2apublic health antibiotic antibiotics capitalism servicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:5cb9d32df3c9/How Trump Could Cause the Economic Meltdown - YouTube2017-01-25T01:35:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vO3h3Geh48
asterisk2aDonaldTrump Donald Trump Co-Op wealth redistribution Precariat working poor Service Sector USA income growth wage CEO pay WallStreet shareholder stakeholder GFC squeezed middle class poverty trap Consumer Debt household debtoverhang discretionary spending disposable AI Robotics Skidelsky technological Productivity leisure time part-time Obamacare ACA neoliberal neoliberalism crony Capitalism Exploitationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:18a0fd2f4a1c/Dementia now leading cause of death - BBC News2016-11-14T18:29:47+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37972141
asterisk2aCVD cancer dementia Alzheimer sick population ageing Demographic Bubble premature death UK NHS social care service elderly adult bedblocking bed blocking health budget demand Crisis diet lifestyle disease Jeremy Hunthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:84aea5a47940/Taxpayers fund large wages and lavish perks of academy school chiefs | Education | The Guardian2016-07-24T11:03:54+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jul/23/education-academies-funding-expenses
asterisk2aAcademy education policy governance Privatisation UK Westminster Whitehall Public Services service austerity Tories Conservative Party teacher pay shortage staff morale David Cameronhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:97165284b2b2/'Northern powerhouse' depends on productivity not rail links: thinktank | Business | The Guardian2016-07-03T16:21:01+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/01/northern-powerhouse-depends-on-productivity-not-rail-links-thinktank
asterisk2aNorthern Powerhouse Brexit apprenticeship apprenticeships UK recovery productivity gap output economic history Manufacturing household debt consumer student City of London George Osborne Policy underinvestment STEM skills economy shortage structural unemployment long-term working poor Service Sector Jobs Precariat Gini coefficient inequality poverty child austerity infrastructure investment economies agglomeration competitiveness comparative advantage competition competitive global globalisation globalization DWP Iain Duncan Smith GFC Steel Crisis Industry energy price University Germany education bubble AI automation Robotics Robots autonomous car self-driving cars augmented intelligencehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e25f1a7fd2fb/Stocks are up. But it appears to us that the U.S. economy is going down. Go figure.2016-04-23T05:42:22+00:00
http://www.econmatters.com/2016/04/prepping-for-recession.html
asterisk2amonetary velocity liquidity trap Richard Koo nominal GDP targeting measurement recovery reflate reflation economic history money supply Fed fiscal policy Gini coefficient inequality harm damage GFC crony capitalism shareholder Greed profit maximisation maximization squeezed middle class Elizabeth Warren Joseph Stiglitz Paul Krugman Robert Reich Thomas Piketty 2016 UK USA secular stagnation Pact stimulus austerity Schuldenbremse social mobility income working poor Precariat low pay Service Sector Jobs Zero Hour Contract Contractor self-employment inflation microeconomic macroeconomic Super Rich 1% plutocracy oligarchy in crisis self-regulation book value Wall Street meritocracy meritocratic post-racial America barackobama Larry Summers Bernie Sanders Establishment Privileged deregulation bank bailout safety net welfare state aggregate demandhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:540d9800e3da/Martin Lewis conforonts Osborne over his living wage con2016-04-21T03:32:27+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR2rFM64tpQ
asterisk2aliving wage self-regulation working poor Greed profit maximisation maximization George Osborne Iain Duncan Smith budget2015 minimum low pay income self-employment Contractor Zero Hour Contract HMRC tax receipts Precariat precarious employment work credit poverty condition class squeezed middle Trade Union Workers Service Sector Jobs job creation shareholder capitalism crony regulation regulators value productivity output gaphttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c98d56d4f86a/IMF urges more spending to boost growth2016-04-18T16:11:24+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/17/imf-urges-spending-boost-growth
asterisk2asecular stagnation Panama Papers tax evasion amnesty avoidance corporate rate labour market job Service Sector Jobs income receipts budget2016 George Osborne David Cameron general election 2015 2020 campaign promises Party Funding Richard Koo Confidence Fairy austerity underinvestment Generationengerechtigkeit triple-lock pension fairness Generation Rent Housing Crisis property bubble USA UK reflation reflate fiscal policy Pact Schuldenbremse Angela Merkel Wolfgang SchÀuble GFC sovereign debt banking bank bailout creation squeezed middle class working poor disposable discretionary spending IMF OECD credit China BRIC recovery Germany economic history 2016 Niall Ferguson budget deficit offshore investment TBTF self-regulation Greed crony capitalism shareholder globalisation globalization global economy Oil price commodity prices ChristineLagarde inequality Gini coefficient mobility social low pay child poverty food health care cost demand western world European Union Brussels Brexit Grexit sick population mehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d60afc02e8da/Future of Steel - Ken Clarke & Paul Mason - BBC Newsnight2016-04-12T14:06:39+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsgkx2qO6KA
asterisk2aunderinvestment austerity Smart Grid energy policy price competitive advantage George Osborne David Cameron budget2010 budget2015 Budget2016 Manufacturing current account deficit budget trade TPP AIIB World Bank China BRIC commodity prices heavy industry microeconomic macroeconomic macroprudential Mark Carney education skills gap skill investment apprenticeship further immigration migration Tories Conservative Party nasty NIRP ZIRP QE recovery output productivity Service Sector Jobs job creation labour market DWP Iain Duncan Smith general election 2015 campaign promises Manifesto corporate restructuring welfare subsidies subsidizing Privatisation Nationalization Nationalisation constituency Funding 2020 IMF OECD folly error global economy credit bubble Germany Hinkley Point C renewable storage fiscal monetary property rent-seeking rentier liquidity-trap liquidity trap Housing Crisis Help to Save Buy Scheme Right Buy-to-Lethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:a0138832c975/Workers or Shirkers? Ian Hislop's Victorian Benefits2016-04-11T23:40:07+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076vtmz
asterisk2aUniversal Basic Income class warfare poverty trap child tax credit free austerity DWP Iain Duncan Smith ESA JSA WCA Disabled vulnerable mental health civil society Gesellschaft Gesellschaftswerte substance abuse self-medication deprivation structural unemployment drug addiction Public Services Social NHS sick population capitalism Soziale Marktwirtschaft Gerechtigkeit moral beliefs ethics philosophy working poor low pay Precariat precarious work mobility education policy Gini coefficient economic history Super Rich 1% Establishment Privileged Toff No Representation Career Politicians squeezed middle class-warfare Sozialpolitik Integrationspolitik immigration migration UK microeconomic macroeconomic meritocracy meritocratic stigma Food Bank crony bailout corporate welfare evasion amnesty avoidance shareholder lobby revolving door ladder Service Sector Jobs aggregate demand fairness Zero Hour Contract part-time incentive self-employment Contractor Trade Union neoliberal neoliberalism Workers Rights justice oppohttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c01136cd8620/Universal credit cuts to lose low-income families up to ÂŁ200 a month2016-04-10T22:35:56+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/10/universal-credit-cuts-to-lose-low-income-families-up-to-200-a-month
asterisk2apoverty child trap food social mobility income tax credit Stephen Crabb welfare reform state free Universal Iain Duncan Smith DWP George Osborne David Cameron austerity fairness evasion avoidance Super Rich 1% neoliberal neoliberalism plutocracy oligarchy Panama Papers Toff Establishment Privileged Whitehall Westminster No Representation Career Politicians nasty party Budget2016 budget2015 single-parent minimum wage living part-time self-employment Zero Hour Contract Contractor low pay working poor Precariat precarious work deprivation attainment gap Service Sector Jobs allowancehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c29ebc016665/The Rebellion Will Not Go Away2016-04-09T22:26:52+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD3XA2KxdIQ
asterisk2aDonald Trump Bernie Sanders presidential election 2016 Hillary Clinton Establishment Privileged Toff oligarchy plutocracy Super Rich 1% lobby revolving door Career Politicians squeezed middle class working poor Precariat presidency barackobama TPP TTIP NAFTA CETA activism trust Panama Papers tax evasion amnesty avoidance white-collar crime bank bailout GFC recovery job creation Service Sector Jobs USA UK UKIP AfD No Representation far-right Rechtsruck right-wing demagogue demagogy Polarisation manufactured consent populism low pay income precarious work Gig Economy insecurity part-time Zero Hour Contract Contractor self-employment market labour participation economic justice Student Loan Bubble poverty child traphttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:aa830877bd02/What the Panama Papers Tells Us About Global Capitalism2016-04-09T22:19:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKiUnX6za8
asterisk2aPanama Papers David Cameron George Osborne tax evasion amnesty avoidance Super Rich Toff Privileged Establishment Westminster Whitehall expense scandal No Representation Career Politicians 1% legal loopholes plutocracy oligarchy Tories nasty party Richard Wolff Conservative shell company offshore banking loopoles budget deficit austerity fairness Generationengerechtigkeit neoliberal neoliberalism accounting corporate white-collar crime trickle-down economics free market rate Budget2016 self-regulation underinvestment squeezed middle class working poor Gini coefficient child poverty corruption bribery money laundering UK USA Bahamas CaymanIslands income distribution credit Disabled vulnerable babyboomers triple-lock pension DWP capital gains receipts secular stagnation western world social mobility trust low pay shareholder capitalism crony Service Sector Jobs Universal Basic warfare disposable discretionary spending bubble economic history Gesellschaft Wertegesellschaft materialism consumerism status anxietyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:f9a14087df7c/Tyler Cowen: "The Great Stagnation", Michael Vassar & Cowen Debate at Singularity Summit 20112016-04-08T22:09:41+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed6gNSZRawY
asterisk2asecular stagnation western world underinvestment R&D innovation Innovators Dilemma rentier rent-seeking oligopol oligopoly winner take all babyboomers Generationengerechtigkeit fairness austerity triple-lock pension obligation recovery Super Rich 1% plutocracy oligarchy No Representation lobby Career Politicians OAP demographic bubble ageing population sick health crisis economic damage climate change global warming productivity gap output GDP measurement GNP nominal targeting inflation BRIC creative destruction Mobile Debt Cycle servitude servicing service income tax receipts evasion avoidance Moore's Law COP21 macroeconomic policy microeconomic OECD IMF crony capitalism Privileged Establishment shareholder profit maximisation maximization value revolving door Wall Street squeezed middle class working poor disposable trickle-down economics neoliberal neoliberalism discretionary spending renewable energy infrastructure investment Smart Grid AI artificial intelligence augmented Autonomous Cars ZIRP NIRP QE Newhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:59929a2c68a8/Why Everyone Must Get Ready For The 4th Industrial Revolution2016-04-06T18:49:36+00:00
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/04/05/why-everyone-must-get-ready-for-4th-industrial-revolution/#5ce12d679c98
asterisk2aMobile Creative Creatives augmented intelligence artificial AI Robotics automation destruction creativity book social safety net welfare state tax credit working poor Precariat low pay income Universal Basic receipts job creation Service Sector Jobs precarious work employment Contractor part-time Zero Hour Contract self-employment evasion profit maximisation maximization shareholder capitalism value Wall Street M&A Autonomous Cars Google Car Uber public transport transportation corporate rate amnesty avoidance Panama Papers offshore banking Super Rich 1% plutocracy oligarchy Soziale Marktwirtschaft skills gap economy skill mismatch skill-biased technological change shortage missmatch investment education policy winner take all business model R&D underinvestment austerity Generationengerechtigkeit fairness democracy secular stagnation western world market labour poverty trap economic history UK USA Europe Germanyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:20dbc22471f5/Waiters And Bartenders Rise To Record, As Manufacturing Workers Drop Most Since 20092016-04-03T12:15:17+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-01/waiters-and-bartenders-rise-record-manufacturing-workers-drop-most-2009
asterisk2aUK USA job creation Manufacturing industrial policy competitiveness competitive Service Sector Jobs minimum wage low pay income productivity gap recovery economic history budget deficit tax receipts IRS HMRC trade current account precarious work Precariat squeezed middle class loss security insecurity working poor Contractor Zero Hour Contract Budget2016 George Osborne STEM skills apprenticeships 2015 2016 China BRIC global economy globalisation globalization outsourcing self-employment free credit social safety net welfare state output participation rate babyboomers western world secular stagnation Support growth disposable discretionary spending household debt consumer card car loan student Generation Rent Generationengerechtigkeit evasion avoidance amnesty crony capitalism shareholder profit maximisation maximization Wall Street value multiplier-effect austerityhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ed34f319e61b/Budget 2016: Four key numbers - BBC Newsnight2016-03-31T14:31:39+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSqH6LhzzPw
asterisk2a> OBR has done 'no projections' on impact of Brexit: Robert Chote - BBC Newsnight - youtu.be/A0jvIUKTU1U //&! Budget 2016: Evan Davis grills Sajid Javid on the numbers - BBC Newsnight - youtu.be/L0TBTbfNgCw - "WE HAD THE BIGGEST BANK BAILOUT" //&! NICKY MORGAN ON TORY WELFARE ROW - BBC Newsnight - youtu.be/IC_Yhggk62o]]>Budget2016 OBR secular stagnation income tax receipts productivity gap recovery economic history Richard Koo Brexit Schuldenbremse Fiscal Pact general election 2020 austerity underinvestment business confidence job creation Service Sector Jobs low pay working poor credit Zero Hour Contract wage squeezed middle class self-employment part-time Contractor UK fairness Generationengerechtigkeit pension obligation triple-lock bank bailout trickle-down economics dogma ideology Privatisation free market demographic bubble poverty child food ESA Disabled vulnerable DLA PIP DWP Iain Duncan Smith sanctions JSA social housing affordable Crisis property welfare state reform Universal benefit safety nethttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c2d34f1da6aa/Angestellte bei Airbnb und Uber: "Diese Jobs schaffen ein neues Prekariat"2016-03-27T04:04:05+00:00
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/airbnb-und-uber-was-steckt-hinter-der-sharing-economy-a-1083971.html
asterisk2aShare Economy sharing Uber for X Lyft AirBnB Book on-demand mobile homescreen ondemand convenience Service Sector Jobs Precariat precarious employment work Contractor part-time Zero Hour Contract 1099 Gig neoliberal neoliberalism tax credit low pay income self-employment labour market job insecurity security secular stagnation squeezed middle class working poor marketplace efficiencies TaskRabbit minimum wage TOS EULAhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6bf047c00ad4/As unicorn startups send customer service gigs to the hinterland, is Silicon Valley exporting its prosperity, or just dead-end jobs?2016-03-27T00:19:32+00:00
https://backchannel.com/those-entry-level-startup-jobs-they-re-now-mostly-dead-ends-in-the-boondocks-af3b4066f5dd#.2nxd7e8lk
asterisk2aService Sector Jobs low pay working poor income precarious work squeezed middle class job creation market insecurity security Silicon Valley part-time Contractor outsourcing self-employment customer runway operating margin cost center of living standard costcutting tax credit Precariat employment career ladder advice IT Industry labourhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e106f36c9d1c/The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesnât Translate2016-03-26T22:44:03+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/technology/the-uber-model-it-turns-out-doesnt-translate.html
asterisk2aUber for X Playbook Lyft on-demand mobile homescreen convenience Share Economy Gig self-employment 1099 marketplace efficiencies TaskRabbit Zero Hour Contract commodity business commoditization Niedriglohnsektor Service Sector Jobs job insecurity creation security market freelancing freelance precarious work working poor Silicon Valleyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:6224268a4adc/Budget 2016 shows Osborne's failure on debt, surplus, GDP2016-03-25T21:32:40+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjyLziYrH3I
asterisk2abudget2015 budget2016 budget2010 general election 2010 2015 PR spin doctor economic history Positioning Richard Koo austerity underinvestment dogma ideology policy folly error George Osborne David Cameron nasty party Iain Duncan Smith corporate tax rate welfare subsidies evasion avoidance Google Inc. shareholder capitalism bank bailout budget deficit Tories Conservative secular stagnation aggregate demand babyboomers ageing population Northern Powerhouse triple-lock pension obligation Generationengerechtigkeit fairness Generation Rent property bubble Service Sector Jobs job creation squeezed middle class working poor precarious work credit wage productivity output gap Gini coefficient income receipts code Zero Hour Contract part-time underemployment underemployed low pay BOE ZIRP NIRP QE consumer debt household card campaign promises car loan student discretionary spending disposable child poverty Food Privatisation Council Public Services Social bed blocking education skills Academy NHShttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:7c1e1edd2adb/Budget 2016: the productivity and prosperity puzzle2016-03-19T02:28:30+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-35828386
asterisk2abudget2016 OBR forecast secular stagnation austerity George Osborne Brexit general election 2020 Tories nasty party Conservative Positioning constituency Funding Toff Career Politicians Establishment Privileged PIP tax code HMRC evasion avoidance industrial policy productivity gap output income receipts job creation Service Sector Jobs working poor credit low pay wage squeezed middle class self-employment part-time Contractor Zero Hour Contract recovery economic history UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:21199f9fcded/Budget 2016: George Osborne's political balancing act2016-03-15T22:25:16+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35801294
asterisk2abudget2016 George Osborne Brexit general election 2020 austerity Career Politicians Tories nasty party Boris Johnson Conservative OBR secular stagnation HMRC income tax receipts Job Creation Service Sector Jobs working poor low pay squeezed middle class savings rate credithttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:65c80bfbd44a/Budget 2016: Osborne's economic fitness regime - BBC News2016-03-15T22:08:37+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35783173
asterisk2abudget2016 budget2015 George Osborne policy folly error zombie consumer debt household credit card car loan student ZIRP NIRP QE mortgage rates market property bubble Oil price commodity prices aggregate demand distortion underinvestment IFS OBR income tax receipts HMRC job creation Service Sector Jobs working poor low pay squeezed middle class Consumerism Industrialhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:740fc74baa32/German Banks Told To Start Hoarding Cash | Zero Hedge2016-03-04T19:40:55+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-04/revolution-begins-german-banks-told-start-hoarding-cash
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/Over 80% Of Jobs Added In January Were Minimum Wage Earners | Zero Hedge2016-03-04T19:32:29+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-04/over-80-jobs-added-january-were-minimum-wage-earners
asterisk2aUK USA job creation Service Sector Jobs minimum wage low pay income precarious work Precariat BLS HMRC DWP Iain Duncan Smith George Osborne David Cameron aggregate demand Richard Koo consumer debt household credit card car loan secular stagnation recovery GFC austerity trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal living tax FOI Freedom of Information Act free market social safety net welfare state housing benefit working poor economic history squeezed middle classhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:d9811ac127be/UK consumes far less than a decade ago â '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
asterisk2apeak stuff secular stagnation demographic bubble zombie consumer materialism status anxiety consumerist choice consumerism sustainability sustainable resource depletion finite resources debt marginal propensity to consume disposable income discretionary spending household car loan credit card student StudentLoans savings rate retirement poverty in old age squeezed middle class wage job creation low pay Zero Hour Contract Contractor self-employment working poor precarious work Precariat capitalism western world COP21 carbon tax carbonfootprint carbonemission sharing economy Service Sector Jobs recyclinghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:91b630be4563/Mervyn King: new financial crisis is 'certain' without reform of banks | Business | The Guardian2016-02-28T23:24:34+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/28/mervyn-king-new-financial-crisis-is-certain-without-reform-of-banks
asterisk2abank crisis banking investment self-regulation retail Greed financial product regulation regulators City of London George Osborne Mark Carney macroprudential policy property bubble austerity liquidity trap secular stagnation job creation Service Sector Jobs economic history GFC neoliberalism neoliberal trickle-down economics free market ZIRP NIRP QE faultlines hot-money hunt for yield distortion repression emerging middle class Frontier Markets BRIC China Brazil credit 2016 reflate reflation junk bond revolving debt household mortgage consumer UK IMF OECD card car loan BOE MervynKing ECB Fed Europe deflationary deflation Gini coefficient inequality MarioDraghi Taper QT bonuses bonus global imbalances structural imbalance Career Politicians lobbyist lobby Lobbying door New Normal speculative bubbles Richard Koo Fiscal Pact Schuldenbremsehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b6c0ee3d5f70/George Osborne warns of further spending cuts in Budget - BBC News2016-02-26T19:04:03+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35672158
asterisk2aUK secular stagnation austerity Richard Koo Japan economic history dogma ideology IMF OECD ChristineLagarde economists Paul Krugman Joseph Stiglitz Robert Reich David Cameron Tories nasty party recovery aggregate demand Conservative macroeconomic policy microeconomic fiscal monetary Mark Carney BOE City of London HMRC tax evasion avoidance self-employment corporate rate Service Sector Jobs working poor multiplier precarious work Precariat low pay income credit housing benefit income-based JSA Zero Hour Contract Contractor wage DWP Iain Duncan Smith skills gap STEM productivity output Manufacturing industrial neoliberalism neoliberal trickle-down economics Chicago School JohnMaynardKeynes keynes Keynesianism Pact Schuldenbremse Wolfgang SchÀuble Angela Merkel European Union property bubble apprenticeships value creation added underinvestment productive investment infrastructure competitiveness marginal cost energy price Hinkley Point C nuclear power waste subsidies subsidizing welfare lobbyist lobby Lobbyinhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:e0a734495fef/Brexit referendum could destabilise UK recovery, says IMF | Business | The Guardian2016-02-25T05:37:09+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/24/brexit-referendum-destabilise-uk-economic-recovery-imf-lagarde
asterisk2aBrexit austerity household debt consumer property bubble credit card car loan student IMF OECD job creation Service Sector Jobs trade deficit UK George Osborne David Cameron fiscal policy industrial labour market underinvestment education NHS child poverty Gini coefficient inequality social mobility income recovery 2016 general election 2015 budget campaign promises Manifesto Generationengerechtigkeit fairness trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal Zero Hour Contract part-time minimum wage tax Contractor self-employment low pay Precariat working poor disposable discretionary spending servitude monetary stimulus Pact Schuldenbremse 2020https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:dbfbb4d2d84a/Talia Jane may have deceived us, but her point stands2016-02-24T21:41:35+00:00
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/281791/talia-jane-yelp-privilege/
asterisk2aPrecariat working poor San Francisco Silicon Valley Yelp! customer service low pay income distribution tax credit housing benefit commuting minimum wage living discretionary spending Wall Street shareholder value profit maximisation disposable Millennials career ladder Sector Jobs job creation financial literacy advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:be406b944ec4/Whiners vs. Winners: 2 Emerging Millennial Mindsets in the Workplace | Inc.com2016-02-24T21:39:41+00:00
http://www.inc.com/jt-odonnell/whiners-vs-winners-2-emerging-millennial-mindsets-in-the-workplace.html
asterisk2aMillennials job creation Service Sector Jobs customer Precariat career advice ladder working poor life hacker lesson Casey Neistat minimum wage disposable income discretionary spending squeezed middle class San Francisco cost of living American Dream meritocracy meritocratichttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8017c2ad3f09/Five issues that will shape the Northern Powerhouse - BBC News2016-02-22T21:10:28+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35602484
asterisk2aSTEM skills gap practical apprenticeships underinvestment productive investment Northern Powerhouse UK George Osborne David Cameron productivity output recovery carbon tax renewable energy competitiveness competitive industrial policy Germany corporate rate evasion avoidance conglomerate multinational HMRC budget deficit dogma ideology austerity squeezed middle class job creation Service Sector Jobs added value economic history property bubble distortion HS2 Hinkley Point C HS3 infrastructure macroeconomic macroprudential zombie banks BOE Funding for Lending Scheme Mark Carneyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b4c3d6ecffb4/An Alarm Goes Off Threatening The "Strong U.S. Jobs" Myth: Withheld Income Taxes Are Stalling | Zero Hedge2016-02-21T21:35:46+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-20/alarm-goes-threatening-strong-us-jobs-myth-withheld-income-taxes-are-stalling
asterisk2aFOI UK USA recovery Service Sector Jobs economic history secular stagnation George Osborne wage low pay income labour market precarious work Precariat working poor disposable discretionary spending growth part-time Zero Hour Contract Contractor self-employment HMRC IRS Freedom of Information Act austerity David Cameron nasty party PR spin doctor Positioning misrepresentationhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c4ac2cfb3071/How do we move beyond the âausterityâ debates? - YouTube2016-02-21T00:34:36+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-JuDKoaG-g
asterisk2aausterity ECB OMT TLTRO LTRO Fiscal Pact Schuldenbremse Angela Merkel Richard Koo economic history UK George Osborne Wolfgang SchÀuble ZIRP NIRP QE household debt consumer credit card car loan student Bubble Generationengerechtigkeit fairness non-performing NPL discretionary spending disposable income tax welfare state social safety net underinvestment infrastructure investment Council productivity output gap European Union Germany France David Cameron dogma ideology BOE Mark Carney property distortion squeezed middle class working poor job creation Service Sector Jobs precarious work Precariat low pay wage stagnation servitude Bundesbank BuBa youth unemployment skills secular policy monetary aggregate demand Housing Crisis affordablehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:34ca777eac72/Dispatches - Low Pay Britain - All 42016-02-18T22:49:54+00:00
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/on-demand/62774-001
asterisk2aapprenticeships exploitation Workers Union Trade working poor Generationengerechtigkeit fairness precarious work Precariat self-regulation minimum wage living low pay income welfare state social safety net tax credit housing benefit Iain Duncan Smith DWP spin doctor Positioning Career Politicians No Representation Service Sector Jobs job creation youth unemployment policy folly error education PR David Cameron George Osborne industrial STEM Manufacturing microeconomic macroeconomic recovery GFC disposable discretionary spending corporate scandal subsidies subsidizing budget deficit FachkrÀftemangel trickle-down economics neoliberalism neoliberal Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value Ofsted skills gap budget2015 free market Privatisation dogma ideologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:ca4dca4a424a/Full-time work is no bar to poverty in UK, report says | Society | The Guardian2016-02-15T18:54:44+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/15/full-time-work-is-no-bar-to-poverty-in-uk-report-says
asterisk2aService Sector Jobs job creation precarious work Precariat minimum wage Zero Hour Contract Contractor UK poverty tax credit child squeezed middle class stagnation income growth low pay disposable discretionary spending distribution inequality Gini coefficient mobility downward social redistribution free recovery austerity living standard quality of life Perspective Perspektivlosigkeit deprivation economic security GFC secular history health trickle-down economics dogma ideology neoliberalism neoliberal corporate rate welfare subsidies subsidizing DWP George Osborne David Cameron Iain Duncan Smith budget deficit evasion avoidance USA household debt consumer card car loan student Bubble care safety net statehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c562b1ce439f/From Ticker - S&P: QE is driving inequality between the generations2016-02-11T16:31:04+00:00
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
asterisk2aJoseph Stiglitz secular stagnation reflate reflation austerity QE ZIRP NIRP TARP TLTRO LTRO zombie banks corporations consumer Richard Koo debt household car loan credit card Student Bubble disposable income discretionary spending squeezed middle class Precariat low pay wage growth USA UK Europe western world mortgage market NPL servitude underinvestment productive investment infrastructure economic history policy folly error corporate welfare tax evasion avoidance Gini coefficient distribution social mobility poverty trap inequality recovery job creation Service Sector Jobs distortion financial repression speculative bubbles hunt for yield asset equity VIX volatility Help to Buy Scheme monetary liquidity fiscal debtoverhang deleveraging balance sheet recession confidence business productivity output gap aggregate demand redistribution repo transmission mechanism system GFC banking crisis retail hot-money Frontier Markets emerging BRIC rent-seeking rentier carbon damagehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:c1d7d1bbf12a/UK trade deficit widens further as exports suffer | Business | The Guardian2016-02-09T19:36:50+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/09/uk-trade-deficit-widens-further-imports-exports
asterisk2aUK trade deficit current account budget tax reciepts 2015 2016 recovery secular stagnation underinvestment business investment austerity economic history global economy emerging market Frontier Markets BRIC foreign direct productive infrastructure Richard Koo consumer debt household credit card car loan Student Bubble servitude discretionary spending government disposable income generation rent ZIRP NIRP QE liquidity trap zombie corporations distortion financial repression speculative bubbles hunt for yield fiscal policy monetary BOE property Housing Crisis George Osborne competitiveness productivity output gap job creation Service Sector Jobs corporate rate welfare subsidies subsidizing immigration migration Super Cyclehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b5d1cf048937/As growth falters, Osborne hopes Mark Carney can keep a lid on interest rates | Business | The Guardian2016-02-07T10:50:05+00:00
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/Revealed: the Tories new plan to squeeze the working poor (From Herald Scotland)2016-02-03T01:29:43+00:00
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14242638.Revealed__the_Tories_new_plan_to_squeeze_the_working_poor/?ref=mr&lp=11
asterisk2asanctions DWP Iain Duncan Smith working poor part-time austerity poverty child food Zero Hour Contract Contractor freelance self-employment precarious work Precariat low income pay minimum wage UK Gini coefficient inequality distribution redistribution fairness Generationengerechtigkeit bank bailout tax evasion avoidance Tories nasty party Conservative Funding progressive code corporate welfare subsidies subsidizing George Osborne David Cameron dogma state social safety net ideology neoliberalism neoliberal trickle-down economics credit Service Sector Jobshttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:07ce87554800/BBC News on the North South Divide with Tom Hunt - YouTube2016-01-30T03:30:00+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ-dtUUQCZA
asterisk2aNorthern Powerhouse UK Scotland Westminster London George Osborne Devolution job creation Service Sector Jobs microeconomic policy macroeconomic knowledge economy worker transferring-wealth transfer payments income distribution redistribution low pay precarious work Precariat part-time recovery GFC Manufacturing STEM productivity output gap macroeconomics microeconomics nasty party Conservative David Cameron Toff Establishment post code lottery health inequality Gini coefficient social mobility wealth Privileged education apprenticeships vocational austerity Council Public Services SNP Bill Fiscal Framework fairness Generationengerechtigkeit structural unemployment PR spin doctor Positioninghttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:282195a0c3be/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 ÂŁ1,300 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/JubilĂ€um Ç Gegen den Mainstream â der Freitag2016-01-24T23:54:32+00:00
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/jaugstein/gegen-den-mainstream
asterisk2aAlternativlos TINA austerity bank bailout social democracy The Guardian NewStatesman lefty populism neoliberalism neoliberal squeezed middle class working poor Precariat precarious work low income job creation western world secular stagnation Service Sector Jobs UK USA Europe economic history Gini coefficient inequality Super Rich 1% No Representation plutocracy oligarchy IMF OECD mainstream media LĂŒgenpresse fearmongering Fear uncertainty security structural unemployment youthhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:03e53b5c68e4/Minister will tell Amazon to pay living wage as firm makes new jobs pledge (From Herald Scotland)2016-01-24T22:05:36+00:00
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14225424.Minister_will_tell_Amazon_to_pay_living_wage_as_firm_makes_new_jobs_pledge/
asterisk2ajob creation low pay minimum wage precarious work Precariat Zero Hour Contract Contractor Service Sector Jobs income tax credit corporate scandal welfare subsidies subsidizing Council Amazon UK recovery part-time western world secular stagnation squeezed middle class working poorhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:af5c316ed3ff/Why is the pound falling so sharply? - BBC News2016-01-20T15:16:03+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35343792
asterisk2aUK BOE Taper ZIRP NIRP QE liquidity trap debtoverhang consumer debt household credit card mortgage market industrial policy austerity monetary fiscal Richard Koo zombie banks corporations transmission mechanism theory unconventional Mark Carney MPC energy price competitive competitiveness STEM underinvestment tax evasion avoidance corporate welfare rate subsidies subsidizing secular stagnation immigration migration job creation low income Service Sector Jobs recovery GFC bank bailout budget deficit London Scottish Independence referendum Devolution Brexit uncertainty unknown unkown global economy bubble servitude Super Cycle student loan baddebt NPL private economic history Niall Ferguson democracy Rich 1% oligarchy plutocracy Gini coefficient inequality social mobility Precariat Zero Hour Contract precarious work Contractor pay minimum wage George Osborne Tories dogma ideology Conservative Party neoliberalhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:9edb3f85628f/"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/"It's All The Fed's Fault" Santelli Rages, They "Will Certainly Turn Us Into Japan" | Zero Hedge2016-01-15T14:00:33+00:00
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-14/its-all-feds-fault-santelli-rages-they-will-certainly-turn-us-japan
asterisk2arecovery job creation UK USA Service Sector Jobs Zero Hour Contract low income minimum wagehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:b9a4a52df6b3/Committee warns of decline in Scottish employment standards - BBC News2016-01-15T10:24:27+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-35312685
asterisk2ajob creation Zero Hour Contract Service Sector Jobs recovery GFC precarious work Precariat low income minimum wage working poor tax credit squeezed middle class UK USA part-time poverty trap Gini coefficient social mobility child education policy skills gap market security output productivity living Tories Conservative Party nasty Positioning PR spin doctor growth stagnation consumer debt household card car loan austerity confidence business subsidies subsidizing corporate welfare well being happiness index mental health microeconomic macroeconomic rate evasion avoidance Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value neoliberalism neoliberal dogma ideology scandal CSR responsibility philanthropy underinvestment STEM public investment Foreign Direct productive infrastructure fiscal ZIRP NIRP QE distortionhttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:0c575c6fa50a/New system to ease 999 ambulance pressure, says minister - BBC News2016-01-15T10:16:08+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-35311506
asterisk2aNHS A&E Ambulance Service austerity Privatisation CQChttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:46c3cdd592e0/Edinburgh council 'optimistic' of no compulsory redundancies - BBC News2016-01-15T09:15:12+00:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-35319968
asterisk2aCouncil austerity UK Public Services Social adult care elderly Disabled disability vulnerable NHS Community Service short-termism George Osborne David Cameron Tories nasty party Conservative Westminster Toff Privileged Establishment dogma ideology budget2015 budget2010https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:8044d619d626/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/