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Britain continues to look like a failed state

posted to billy blog on Wed 19th Jun 13

Last week, the UK Department of Work and Pensions released a swathe of new – statistics – on poverty rates in Britain. While the Department tried as hard as it could to present the data in a misleading way and lied the facts, once analysed properly,
Real wage cuts do not stimulate employment

posted to billy blog on Tue 18th Jun 13

In last week’s blog – Massive real wage cuts will not improve growth prospects – I considered the mounting evidence that austerity is leading to massive cuts in real wages for workers in Britain without commensurate gains in employment being
Full employment is still low unemployment and zero underemployment

posted to billy blog on Mon 17th Jun 13

You won’t see much debate or coverage of the desirability of making full employment the central goal of economic policy these days. The politicians, infested with neo-liberalism, do not admit they have abandoned full employment as a policy goal. Instead,

Elementary misuse of spreadsheet data leaves millions unemployed

posted to billy blog on Wed 17th Apr 13

Remember, earlier this year, when the IMF admitted they had made errors in their modelling of expenditure multipliers. They had been tramping into countries with their jackboots telling all and sundry that fiscal austerity would promote growth because their
Latest ECB data shows how bad things have become in Euroland

posted to billy blog on Tue 31st Jan 12

I was reading the recently published January 2012 Monthly Bulletin from the ECB yesterday. It provides a massive amount of interesting data about the developments in the Eurozone plus analysis. The descriptive analysis is fine (this went up, this went down)
It is a pity that he doesnt know the answer himself

posted to billy blog on Mon 4th Jul 11

We are deep into hard-disk crash trauma at CofFEE today with 2 volumes dying at the same time on Friday and a backup drive going down too. At least it was a sympathetic act on their behalf. Combine that with I lost a HDD on an iMAC after only 2 weeks since

Links 6/12/13

posted to naked capitalism on Wed 12th Jun 13

Dear patient readers, Our new webhost did some site tuning, so you should see better or at least no worse performance than before (I’m seeing much snappier loading on my slow copper connection). We will (LATER) be working with our ad service to improve
Links 5/30/13

posted to naked capitalism on Thu 30th May 13

Apes are emotional about choices BBCWorld’s Oldest Torah Believed Found In Bologna University Library, Scroll Overlooked For Years Huffington Post (Carol B)Sick Patients Are Pumped Full of Feed-Tube Formula of Corn Syrup That’s Produced by …
Links 5/14/13

posted to naked capitalism on Tue 14th May 13

Witty kitty! Intrepid cat easily opens FIVE doors to get outside Daily MailEdible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Chained CPI implications?Study: Plants communicate with each other