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The superfast lane to nowheresville
By Alex Hern - 07 January 11:18

Are we focusing on the wrong sort of connectivity?

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Wind Turbines in Spain. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons
Wind farms and abuse of statistics: bird edition
By Alex Hern - 04 January 16:42

When "wind farms are dangerous" really just means "there are a lot of birds".

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Fixing the debt ceiling with a trillion dollar platinum coin
By Alex Hern - 04 January 14:16

Make a silly demand, get a silly concession.

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Child benefit withdrawal will make it better to work less for families with over seven children
By Alex Hern - 04 January 12:12

And come 2076, that will be the case for every family in the nation.

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Switzerland's getting into a currency war with us? Brilliant!
By Alex Hern - 04 January 11:40

Spend, spend, spend.

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Japan "nationalises" industrial stock
By Alex Hern - 03 January 18:08

State capitalism, or unconventional fiscal policy?

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Tesco's "indie" coffee shop should worry defenders of capitalism
By Alex Hern - 03 January 15:26

Free markets rely on informed choices, and those seem lacking in the case of Harris + Hoole.

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Tesco's "indie" coffee shop should worry defenders of capitalism
By Alex Hern - 03 January 15:26

Free markets rely on informed choices, and those seem lacking in the case of Harris + Hoole.

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4G's so last year: why we need 5G, and now
By Rahim Tafazolli - 03 January 13:41

We have a spectrum crunch on our hands, and technology is only just starting to deal with that.

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49's the sticking point for French firms
By Alex Hern - 03 January 12:06

Quantifying regulatory burden.

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Smaug the dragon's monetary tightening
By Alex Hern - 02 January 14:20

The Hobbit and macroeconomics.

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Resource security isn't achieved by locking up commodities
By Dustin Benton - 02 January 13:36

We must strike at the root of resource insecurity, by demateralising our economy where we can.

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To fix the housing market, the government needs to do nothing at all
By Preston Byrne - 02 January 12:47

Just stop trying.

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Austerity averted in US
By Alex Hern - 02 January 11:51

Country hauled back from the fiscal cliff.

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David Cameron in May 2010. His first action as PM was to travel back in time and
Inequality is falling, and for once, Cameron would be right to blame Brown
By Alex Hern - 27 December 13:13

Nothing the Government has done will help equality. That's why they're keeping quiet about it.

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Rejoice! It's finally not illegal to rip CDs
By Alex Hern - 20 December 17:33

The Hargreaves review finally makes UK copyright law suitable for 1998.

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Guardian teams up with tax-avoiding Amazon. Does it matter?
By Alex Hern - 20 December 13:42

Audible will be providing the Guardian's audiobooks, but a boycott would achieve nothing.

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How to lose the battle and win the war for immigration
By Alex Hern - 20 December 12:02

Skilled migration isn't that much better economically – but it's a lot easier to get through politically.

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US Treasury to sell stake in General Motors
By Alex Hern - 20 December 9:50

Total loss to be around $6.5bn.

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New Statesman
SMF wins at Christmas cards
By Alex Hern - 19 December 12:30

"Retiring Rudolph"

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An early Christmas present for Britain's biggest banks: £34bn from taxpayers
By Lydia Prieg - 19 December 9:14

We’re still giving big banks special privileges and they’re still too big to fail, writes Lydia Prieg.

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Wonga are blinding critics with science
By Carl Packman - 18 December 16:47

The payday loan company shows off about its algorithm, but lends to the same vulnerable people.

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Instagram asserts the right to sell your photos
By Alex Hern - 18 December 9:39

You are not the customer, you are the product.

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Argentina wins ship, loses IMF
By Alex Hern - 17 December 16:39

The economic situation in the nation is concerning.

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Still true: nobody cares if a country's credit rating gets cut
By Alex Hern - 17 December 13:29

A country's rating gets cut. Do bond yields go up or down? Toss a coin.

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There still aren't 120,000 "troubled families"
By Alex Hern - 17 December 12:07

A zombie statistic refuses to die, even as the DCLG helps 3,000 real families.

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New Statesman
A big week for money
By Alex Hern - 17 December 9:57

Breakthroughs worldwide.

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Don't tax Amazon. Tax Amazon's shareholders
By Alex Hern - 14 December 18:09

Corporations dodge tax. So go for their owners instead.

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New Statesman
PMI data reinforces tale of three economies
By Alex Hern - 14 December 16:08

Good, bad, worse in the US, UK and EU.

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"Get on a bus and go find work": It's not as easy as all that
By Alex Hern - 14 December 14:24

Transport is a serious hinderance to employment for young people, according to a new report from the Work Foundation.

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