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Politics, society and the next big economic shift?
It's an interesting thought. My husband was pondering whether, if he'd completed his degree first time round, he'd've gone to the city, made shedloads of money and we wouldn't be living in a little flat with a big mortgage... Besides the obvious problems of any "what if" game (if......Read More

Posted on: 2008-12-07 17:48:42 | Rating:

| Views: 143 | Comments: 0 | Tags: policy politics economics economy society social Keynes monetarism credit crunch financial markets consumerism Thatcherism

2 links on the Euro and Economics...
... that I found quite interesting... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/027b1efc-c0a4-11dd-b0a8-000077b076 58.html This is Martin Wolf's FT column on global imbalances... And I was going to use it to kick start my thinking on whether Jose Manuel Barroso was right to raise in quite such a......Read More

Posted on: 2008-12-07 18:15:20 | Rating:

| Views: 107 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Europe EU European Union euro United Kingdom UK UK euro entry credit crunch global economic crisis

virtual friends and real concerns
Just heard that one of my virtual friends on thoughts.com, Circe, is in hospital. We rarely message, I don't know if she still reads my stuff, but i do read hers still. We've never met, but we are virtual friends living on different continents learning a little about each other's lives via our......Read More

Posted on: 2008-12-11 13:52:05 | Rating:

| Views: 118 | Comments: 1 | Tags: friends social networking thoughts get well soon virtual

You couldn't make it up...
I work in a training organisation. As I was in my office this morning there was a blast of noise from one of the classrooms on the other side of the corridor. It carried on for some time. I left my office to go and see a co-worker, but as I walked past the office next to the classroom......Read More

Posted on: 2008-12-11 13:55:29 | Rating:

| Views: 113 | Comments: 0 | Tags: funny true story office work

First pan-European political party launched
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2008/12/ new_european_no_party.html Mark Mardell has an interview with Declan Ganley on the creation today of a pan-EU anti-EU party called Libertas. Declan Ganley was the man behind the “no” to Lisbon campaign in Ireland......Read More

Posted on: 2008-12-11 17:57:18 | Rating:

| Views: 128 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Europe EU Libertas Lisbon Treaty democracy elections European Parliament

Pound worth less than a euro?
... if you're paying exorbitant transaction fees at the Bureau de change. Used to be broadly ok for me when I lived in Brussels but was paid in Euros, but now I'd be finding it quite tough. So how exactly is is good for the UK to be outside the euro and subject to fluctuating exchange rates?......Read More

Posted on: 2008-12-14 17:57:41 | Rating:

| Views: 211 | Comments: 0 | Tags: finance money politics policy currency euro pound Europe EU credit crunch

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