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Change of address

Dear reader(s),My blog has moved to http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/author-dan-atkinson/I hope to see you there.Best wishes,Dan

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Saturday PS: Classless? Priceless

AS one of the world's slowest readers, I finished Alwyn W. Turner's latest book A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s, (Aurum; £25) - despite having had a copy for two weeks - just as a...

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Saturday PS: Not great expectations

I was on LBC last night, talking about the revised growth figures published earlier in the day. No-one likes to be a dog in the manger (I don't, at any rate) but I did urge listeners to be cautious...

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Saturday PS: Hooked on the medicine

THERE'S a (probably) apocryphal story that the business page of one newspaper greeted the 1938 Munich agreement with the headline: 'Shares fall on peace fears.' Not quite as perverse as it sounds given...

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Saturday PS:...and master of none?

BE careful what you wish for. Ever since Britain's calamitous 1990-1992 membership of the European Exchange-rate Mechanism (ERM), I have soldiered away in the good cause of insisting that control of...

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Saturday PS: 1933 - 1973 - 2013?

MY, everyone seems cheery all of a sudden. Apparently, the economy has turned the corner and good times are not too far away. It seems that, in the words of that well-known economic commentator, the...

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Saturday PS: The fiscal frontier?

MANY moons ago, when working for The Guardian, I ran a story based on the prediction of my old friend Ian Angell, professor at the London School of Economics, that 'off-planet banking', with financial...

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Saturday PS: Oil and water

ACCOUNTING and sport really don't go well together, as demonstrated again this week with the official claim that the 2012 Olympics delivered economic benefits worth £10 billion.A suspiciously round...

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Saturday PS: The economics of somewhere else

ON January 4 1642, Charles I turned up in Parliament to arrest five MPs whom he believed to be plotting against him. Forewarned, they had very sensibly high-tailed it prior to the King's arrival.The...

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Saturday PS: You shake it to the right...

IT has been some years since The Sun newspaper entertained us all with its cut-out-and-keep guides on 'how to spot a lefty'. From memory, there were a couple of hot button issues on which however hard...

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Change of address

Dear reader(s),My blog has moved to http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/author-dan-atkinson/I hope to see you there.Best wishes,Dan

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Change of address

Dear reader(s),My blog has moved to http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/author-dan-atkinson/I hope to see you there.Best wishes,Dan

View Article

Saturday PS: Classless? Priceless

AS one of the world's slowest readers, I finished Alwyn W. Turner's latest book A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s, (Aurum; £25) - despite having had a copy for two weeks - just as a...

View Article


Saturday PS: Classless? Priceless

AS one of the world's slowest readers, I finished Alwyn W. Turner's latest book A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s, (Aurum; £25) - despite having had a copy for two weeks - just as a...

View Article

Saturday PS: Not great expectations

I was on LBC last night, talking about the revised growth figures published earlier in the day. No-one likes to be a dog in the manger (I don't, at any rate) but I did urge listeners to be cautious...

View Article


Saturday PS: Hooked on the medicine

THERE'S a (probably) apocryphal story that the business page of one newspaper greeted the 1938 Munich agreement with the headline: 'Shares fall on peace fears.' Not quite as perverse as it sounds given...

View Article

Saturday PS:...and master of none?

BE careful what you wish for. Ever since Britain's calamitous 1990-1992 membership of the European Exchange-rate Mechanism (ERM), I have soldiered away in the good cause of insisting that control of...

View Article


Saturday PS: 1933 - 1973 - 2013?

MY, everyone seems cheery all of a sudden. Apparently, the economy has turned the corner and good times are not too far away. It seems that, in the words of that well-known economic commentator, the...

View Article

Saturday PS: The fiscal frontier?

MANY moons ago, when working for The Guardian, I ran a story based on the prediction of my old friend Ian Angell, professor at the London School of Economics, that 'off-planet banking', with financial...

View Article

Saturday PS: Oil and water

ACCOUNTING and sport really don't go well together, as demonstrated again this week with the official claim that the 2012 Olympics delivered economic benefits worth £10 billion.A suspiciously round...

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