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economics
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Politics, economics, people
Good news for graduates…
Well, OK there’s a caveat to that. It’s good news for graduates who took out student loans post 1998 and who are currently employed. Obviously the recession is having a terrible impact on recent graduates who are searching for the ever-elusive graduate scheme places as most recruiters seem to have dropped graduate recruitment quicker than [...]
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business, economics, nightlife
Creative Destruction in full effect
I have no idea if Joseph Schumpeter had a penchant for smugness but I’m sure that if he did, he would be standing loftily on his balcony, smoking a pipe whilst allowing himself a rye smile at the current goings-on in the World economy. One of the celebrated economist’s central and most quoted work [...]
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economics, society
Crash?
The irregulars looked at this before we knew what blogging was, and dug it out last night. American property prices since records began, modelled as a ‘Theme Park’ rollercoaster (do you remember how full of win Theme Park was?)
Note, it’s actually Rollercoaster Tycoon on the Atari. But seriously, Theme Park was epic -
economics, nightlife, shoreditch, society
The Death of Shoreditch – Part IV
Death of Shoreditch Part 1
Death of Shoreditch Part 2
Death of Shoreditch Part 3Well, despite the sterling work of the people at the Bowl Court squat, vocal support from some lass called Tracey Emin and the ‘Save the Light’ campaign it appears that Hackney Council have given their support to the uber-scheme planned to “regenerate” [...]
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economics
Hate To Say I Told You so
This whole Bradford & Bingley malarky has sent a shudder through the financial markets and put Buy-To-Let mortgages firmly in the spotlight.
Well, if you cast your mind back to November last year, a certain site, told you that the shit would hit the fan, so to speak, in this article.
As I clearly have a Nostrodamus-esque [...]
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