The UK wanted wider to stop deeper but got wider and deeper. (View Post)

Fiscal conservatism died when the banks were bailed out ** since when its been just about who got the best places at the trough. ** well it died earlier when Gordon Brown thought he'd abolished … (View Post)

Indeed. Its going to be a process akin to evolutionary change in a general direction with many uncertainties rather than a roadmap with a precise process and endpoint. (View Post)

Indeed. But people have complained for as long as I remember about that short-termism. Now we have the beginning of business being forced to end short-termism and think in terms of investment and ups… (View Post)

I disagree about 1997 - people were feeling more affluent with low mortgages, home ownership rising, unemployment falling and demutualising building societies providing free money. What they weren�… (View Post)