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Obama is right

The recent suggestion by US President Barack Obama that the retail and investment functions of the major banks should be separated has not gone down well in either the US or the UK. That Wall Street and the City should fight tooth and nail a move that at a stroke would transform them from Masters of the Universe to the more humble banker is understandable.

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A national embarrassment

In February 1942 Singapore, the great Asian fortress of Great Britain, meekly surrendered to a smaller and less well-equipped Japanese force. Defeat had seemed inconceivable.

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A pilgrim's tale

Such treats may soon be a thing of distant memory, but for those of us who enjoy such things, the annual accounts of the North West Development Agency are now upon us.

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A dismal time ahead

Those who had bothered to read this column with the diligence its author deserves would not merely have seen the recessionary clouds gathering before most other people, they would have realised that the storm, when it arrived, was going to be brutal.

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Too many ifs and buts

Some time ago this magazine covered the Government’s botched attempt to relocate the Office For National Statistics (ONS) to Cardiff and warned that the loss of senior statisticians as a consequence of the botch would lead inevitably to increased errors and a lack of trust in our official statistics.

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It's the currency, stupid

If there is one factor which makes the current recession different from any other, it is that our media and economic commentators have forgotten that a recession is simply a consequence of growth. The Prime Minister may not like it, but after every boom, there is a bust. Without fail.

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It's the currency, stupid

If there is one factor which makes the current recession different from any other, it is that our media and economic commentators have forgotten that a recession is simply a consequence of growth. The Prime Minister may not like it, but after every boom, there is a bust. Without fail.

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The end for the RDAs

If there was one positive thing to emerge from Alistair Darling’s miserable budget it is that it sounded the death knell for the country’s regional development agencies.

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Pork barrel economics

And still this Government does not get it.

We are, most would agree, in the middle of the deepest recession for 30 years. Business confidence has collapsed, the banking system has frozen and our currency is sliding against those of our major competitors.

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The road to ruin

Inch by inch, tentative step by step the Government and the Bank of England move towards using the nuclear bomb of fiscal policy. It is called Quantitative Easing. In the real world it means printing more money.

Independent schools

Have private schools been given six of the best by the recession? EN examines the real bottom line.

Keystroke cops

These days the data held on your computers could be worth more than the hardware itself. So what can you do to make it more secure?

Pigs in lipstick?

Examples of impressive business sales were thin on the ground in 2009 but this year could see that change – if sellers get their presentation right.

Ad its chips?

During the recession marketing budgets have migrated onto the internet at a rate of knots. What has the impact been? EN investigates.

Barring a miracle

The economy might still be limping along but at least gold traders are making a mint. EN discovers how the inflation of a bubble is spawning a glut of new businesses.

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