Posts tagged: Surviving Not Thriving

Hoping for a Treasury win.

25 August 2010 – 2:16 pm

Today the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) published a report on the impact of the June 2010 Emergency budget.  Those of you who have read my previous blog on the Emergency Budget  will know that I had concerns the budget was written to address concerns of global financial markets and not the people of the [...]

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Public Sector cuts: More unintentional consequences?

5 August 2010 – 1:25 pm

Life was a lot easier when I was younger and the only double-dip I had heard of was the sweet.  However nowadays double-dip is the economic watchword accompanying any piece of negative economic news.  As there is still a lot of concern that the UK will enter a double-dip recession. So it was perhaps no [...]

By John Main | Posted in Big Society, Campaigning, In the news, North East economy, Regeneration, Support for sector, Value of the sector | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)