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A mortgage company on the ‘credit crunch’
The ‘credit crunch’ as viewed by the just-nationalised Bradford & Bingley‘s buy-to-let mortgage company, Mortgage Express (just closed for business) in May, 2008:
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Contemplating the ‘crisis’
In case British readers were wondering what journalistic resources they could rely on to keep abreast of the current situation in the financial markets, here’s my advice. You don’t need to! There really is no point in following events you have no possibility of debating, influencing or changing (see Downs‘ An Economic Theory of Democracy).…
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US Presidential Debate offers thumb-sucking, stereotyping opportunity
Want an impartial account of the McCain-Obama debate? The BBC offers this analysis. [McCain on Putin] I would say in America it plays much better as a tough-guy sound-bite, suggestive of a president who knows how to stand up to Moscow. Mr Obama’s answer on Russia rambled quite a bit and veered off into a…
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Revenge of the copy editors…
Remember the majestically ireful email from irked restaurant reviewer Giles Coren to his copy editors at the Times?