Matt Frei
Euro agony spoils US party
Washington Correspondent Matt Frei parties with Chicago’s mayor and blogs on “the kind of generosity that has become less and less common in times of austerity”.
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£18,600 wage minimum to bring spouse to UK
New immigration proposals, setting minimum earnings of nearly £20,000 for those wanting to bring a relative to the UK, would prevent up to 30,000 parents and children from joining their families here.
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Ireland counts austerity referendum votes
Ireland starts counting votes in a referendum on an EU financial treaty that could undermine one of Europe’s key initiatives as problems mount in Spain and Greece.
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Paul Krugman – leading the charge against austerity
Paul Krugman’s new book challenges the consensus view of deficit cutting. Channel 4 News’s Neil Macdonald looks at the economist’s call for a return to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes.
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Mitt Romney wins US Republican nomination
Mitt Romney wins the Republican presidential nomination and now has five months to convince US voters to trust him over Democratic President Barack Obama.
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Matt Frei
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Lindsey Hilsum
Austerity medication – does it cure or kill the patient?
“Maybe we’re going to hell,” said Irene Lozano, an independent Deputy in the Spanish Assembly. “But if we do, we’ll take Germany with us.”
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UK should ease austerity to boost growth, says IMF
Britain should cut interest rates and consider quantitative easing to stimulate growth, the IMF says, on the back of reports showing 3 per cent inflation and predicting the recession is almost over.
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Government ‘failing’ on housing targets – report
Housing groups call on the government to do more after publishing their second Housing Report which finds it is failing in five out of 10 key issues.
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Gain not pain: the end of austerity politics?
From Greece to France, from Britain to Italy, the message seems clear. Voters have had enough of the politics of austerity, enough of economic pain. But is there a realistic alternative?
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Tories pledge to focus on ‘things that matter’
Chancellor George Osborne seeks to head off growing Conservative unrest in the wake of last week’s local election results by promising to focus on “the things that really matter”.
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Extremist politics on the rise as Greek austerity bites
Extremist parties are on the rise in Greece as elections approach. Inigo Gilmore reports on the despair felt by ordinary families struggling to deal with economic austerity and political turmoil.
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Bin Laden killing turns into US election row
A year after US special forces shot dead the world’s most wanted terrorist, bin Laden’s death has sparked a furious political row. A risky tactic by President Obama – now could it backfire?
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Goldman Sachs chairman: ‘Shame on us’
Two years after claiming Goldman Sachs does ‘God’s work’ – or at least God’s banking – Lloyd Blankfein breaks his vow of silence to spread a new message: the bankers are ashamed… No, really.
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Faisal Islam
Chancellor: We have completely won the argument on austerity
“I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world to make Britain competitive to bring jobs to Britain.”
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Faisal Islam
The IMF reveals Britain’s shadow fiscal stimulus
The IMF Fiscal monitor reveals that George Osborne is borrowing money after all – but he’s not calling it stimulus spending, since it falls within his deficit reduction plan.
