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May 2012
'New Labour's top brass doesn't live on council estates, but it might have the decency to check the impact its policies have had on the UK labour market'
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April 2012
‘What would have happened to Britain’s economy if the ECB’s Mario Draghi, rather than Mervyn King, had been governor of the Bank of England in 2007?’
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March 2012
‘The City of London, like all financial markets, does resemble a casino—but it is better to have a successful and productive casino here than to push it abroad’
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January/February 2012
'The eurozone shambles has been the worst setback for European integration since the 1940s'
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