Thursday, 18 December 2008

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Quangos now employing more than a year ago

Tory finance spokesman Derek Brownlee criticised the finance secretary, John Swinney THE number of people working for Scottish quangos has increased over the past year, despite a pledge by Alex Salmond, the First Minister, that there would be a "bonfire" of the public bodies. More info...

New economic policy: If you haven't got enough of this stuff, just print some more

Putting more money into the system - or 'quantitative easing' - is a move that may be adopted by central banks across the world KEEP up at the back. The new big thing to save the world economy is "quantitative easing". Not an upmarket euphemism for a massage, but the latest and most desperate measure yet by central banks to stop a severe recession turning into depre More info