George Osborne. Photograph: Getty Images
GDP almost returns to the level it was before Osborne's double-dip
By Alex Hern - 25 October 9:31

The effects of the second recession have been reversed by 1 per cent growth this quarter.

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The Sleipner gas platform, some 250 kms off Norway's coast in the North Sea. Pho
It's not safe to leave fossil fuels in the ground
By Alex Hern - 25 October 8:24

Better to extract the fossil fuels, capture the carbon, and store that instead, says Professor Jon Gibbins.

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Tower bridge
London Olympics exceed initial budget by £6.52bn
By Alex Hern - 23 October 13:37

When is "under budget" not "under budget"?

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Protesters from the Boycott Workfare campaign outside an M&S on Sunday.
The emperor's new stats release
By Alex Hern - 22 October 13:42

All is not as it seems in last week's employment figures.

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Rows of booze. Photograph: Getty Images
An evidence-based alcohol policy is receding into the rear-view mirror
By Alex Hern - 22 October 11:55

Minimum pricing takes a back seat to multibuy bans – and may not even work anyway.

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New Statesman
Splitting America three-ways
By Alex Hern - 18 October 16:04

If you refounded North America, how many currencies would you go for?

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New Statesman
3D printing: is it really all that?
By Spencer Thompson - 16 October 18:17

It might not be ALL that, but it's most of that, writes the Big Innovation Centre's Spencer Thompson

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A dog. The dog is adorable. But the dog poos. Photograph: Getty Images
What dog poo teaches us about drug policy
By Alex Hern - 16 October 17:22

Why don't we let dogs crap on the street? Mostly because it's nasty.

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GDP percentage growth, quarter on same quarter 1 year ago - estimates.
ONS reports that ONS actually quite good at estimating GDP
By Alex Hern - 16 October 13:45

Estimates rarely change that much, but have got worse since the crash.

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The IMF's buildings in Washington DC. Photograph: Getty Images
The IMF changing its stance leaves the OBR and Treasury isolated
By Jonathan Portes - 16 October 11:15

The number of people who think that this recession was unpredictable is shrinking by the day, writes NIESR's Jonathan Portes.

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A patient receives a kidney in Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore. Photograph
Trading kidneys, repugnant markets and stable marriages win the Nobel Prize in Economics
By Alex Hern - 15 October 13:25

Roth and Shapley charted a course for economists to go beyond simply arguing for markets in everything.

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The Move Your Money campaign outside a Barclays. Photograph: Getty Images
If you want to live ethically, start with your bank account
By Ed Mayo - 15 October 9:35

Moving your money is an opportunity to make the banking system as a whole better, writes Co-operatives UK's Ed Mayo.

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New Statesman
60 per cent of FTT revenues would come from Britain (even if we "opted out")
By Alex Hern - 12 October 16:03
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A Kindle. Photograph: Getty Images
Amazon launches yet another loss-leader, but what is its plan?
By Alex Hern - 12 October 14:32

The Kindle Owners Lending Library will sell a lot of Kindles – but Kindles don't make money.

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New Statesman
Would Newcastle have to pay back £4bn if its Wonga sponsorship was a loan?
By Alex Hern - 12 October 9:48

Interest is tricky.

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A couple of privileged French fops
David Cameron's misappropriation of the word "privilege"
By Philip Booth - 11 October 16:11

The Prime Minister says he wants to spread privilege - the IEA's Philip Booth really hopes that isn't what he meant.

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Credit rating agencies still not very good at rating credit
By Alex Hern - 11 October 13:27

The University of Cambridge is apparently a safer investment than the UK.

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The Matterhorn, Swiss icon. Photograph: Getty Images
Switzerland and Denmark go negative
By Alex Hern - 11 October 9:38

Negative nominal interest rates arrive.

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Rob Liefeld's Captain America, an infamous example of 90s excess.
Run your business (into the ground) the Marvel Comics way
By Alex Hern - 10 October 11:30

The collapse of Marvel comics in the 1990s is legend – one everyone can learn from.

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The IMF headquarters. Photograph: Getty Images
The most important paragraph in the IMF World Economic Outlook
By Alex Hern - 10 October 8:26

68 words of wonkishness.

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A woman rides a bike past a mural supporting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Latin America’s revealing reaction to the Venezuelan election
By Alex Ward - 09 October 17:34

The Bolivarian Revolution vs. the Brazil model.

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Do we really need all those hammers? Photograph: Getty Images
"Collaborative consumption": the new economy
By Tess Riley - 09 October 14:47

The networked world allows an unprecedented degree of collaboration within communities.

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Some red herring.
EU renegotiation: chasing windmills in Birmingham
By Petros Fassoulas - 09 October 10:45

There is no hope that a renegotiation would be anything but a step towards exit from the EU.

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A Spanish flag and a one euro coin. Stock images rule.
Spain's bank balance starts heading in the right direction
By Alex Hern - 09 October 9:58

Some good news from Europe.

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Two members of the group onstage at the Investment Banking Awards. Photograph: G
"The Intruders" hand bottle of Bollinger to Barclays for "innovation in interest rate manipulation" (Video)
By Alex Hern - 09 October 7:31

The group gatecrashed Investment Banking Awards in Mayfair to present the fake prize.

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The Old Street roundabout, an area full of tech startups hoping to benefit from
Osborne's "employee-owner" plan is Beecroft through the back-door
By Alex Hern - 08 October 15:37

Remember "fire-at-will"? It's back! In co-op form!

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French President François Hollande
Hollande forced into U-turn after France's "Pigeons" swoop on tax plan
By Alex Ward - 08 October 15:01

Atlas shrugs in France, and wins.

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eBay. Photograph: Getty Images
If all international trade was done through eBay, the world would be 30 per cent richer
By Alex Hern - 05 October 17:45

Frictionless trade is closer than ever before online, according to a new paper.

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Friedrich Hayek. Photograph: Getty Images
The slow death of neoliberalism
By William Davies - 05 October 15:33

Would Hayek like minimum pricing for alcohol? No.

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Tim Cook launches new iPods at a press event last month. Photograph: Getty Image
A new iTunes streaming service could be a disaster for songwriters
By Alex Hern - 05 October 14:22
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