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Economics
"Troubled families tsar" admits there aren't 120,000 troubled families
08 April 2013

Families in trouble are not the same as families causing trouble.

Books
Technicolour dimensions: John Smith and Edmund Bagwell's Indigo Prime
07 April 2013

Anthropocalyptic.

Economics blog
70 per cent of the cost of cutting the personal allowance goes to the richest half of society
05 April 2013

Income tax is quite progressive; better to cut VAT or council tax.

Business
Apple makes good with the Chinese government, but a battle over encryption is on the cards
05 April 2013

"Arrogant" Apple has apologised in China.

Business
Draghi, annotated
05 April 2013

What the ECB president was really thinking.

Economics
Facebook Home launches to eat Google's lunch
05 April 2013

The company has rolled out a replacement for the Android home screen.

Economics blog
Bank of England holds interest rates at 0.5%
04 April 2013

No change.

Economics
Japan announces "quantitative and qualitative easing"
04 April 2013

¥135trn of government bonds will be bought by the central bank.

Economics
PMI week: UK headed for slight growth in Q1 2013
04 April 2013

Services sector saves the day.

Economics
Deutsche Bank alleged to have hid losses in 2007-09. Good?
04 April 2013

The effects of what's being alleged are far from simple.

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