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1 May 2012updated 26 Sep 2015 7:17pm

Opinionomics | 1 May 2012

Must-read comment and analysis. Featuring Paul v Paul and Ha-Joon Chang.

By Alex Hern

1. Cutting red tape and taxes will not revive Britain (Guardian)

Without completely rebuilding its economic model, the future of the British economy is bleak, writes Ha-Joon Chang.

2. What makes health-care and education costs similar to each other — and unlike anything else Washington Post | Wonkblog)

Ezra Klein looks at the similarities between health care and higher education. Are costs for both spiralling out of control because of government intervention – or despite it?

3. Lloyds almost off addiction to taxpayer loans (BBC News)

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Robert Peston writes about the good news for taxpayers in Lloyds’ latest results.

4. Economy Face Off: Ron Paul vs Paul Krugman (Bloomberg)

Twenty minutes of Paul v Paul. It’s like a clash of the titans, if one of the titans wasn’t actually a titan but just had a lot of people on the internet who thought he was.

5. No alternative to austerity (Financial Times)

Gideon Rachman sticks his head in the sand.

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