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October 05, 2010Osborne To Defend Spending Cuts, Attack LabourPosted by Willian SmithBIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne will on Monday defend his cuts agenda despite fears about slowing growth, in an effort to portray new opposition [...] Rating:  2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
June 22, 2010George Osborne | NewsPosted by Willian SmithNews stories about George Osborne. [...] The latest news, pictures and information related to George Osborne published by London's Evening Standard newspaper. Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010Conservatives Set To Destroy A Generation With Vicious CutsPosted by Willian SmithThe Tory Party conference is underway in Britain, and the main theme seems to be the enormous slashes to the welfare state. The cuts are coming in all forms - cuts to child benefits, cuts to government jobs, cuts to public services, and cuts to even defense spending. Here's the chancellor George Osb [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010George Osborne Needs A Bolder Plan To Stop Businesses Quitting ...Send by ConservativeHomeBy Tim Montgomerie The IMF showered praise on George Osborne yesterday for his deficit reduction strategy. A delighted Chancellor toured the nation's TV studios to bask in the well deserved glory. But in taking the job of being [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
June 22, 2010George Osborne Gives Hope For The Growth Of Stock Markets Today ...Send by DasciaThe head of the British Treasury George Osborne said that he was going to raise taxes on banks, while reducing expenditures on social programs, and salaries of civil servants, in order to reduce the budget deficit and keep the country's [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010RBA Confounds The Market Economists But Thats EasyPosted by Willian SmithThe Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced today that its policy rate would stay unchanged at 4.5 per cent. It means that the policy rates have been on hold since May after the tightening cycle began in October 2009 and led to 6 rises. The RBA has clearly been looking out the window. It is seeing [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010Higher Earners Lose Child Benefit | Stock Market News - Business ...Send by EditorGeorge Osborne: When we're asking so much of so many people across society I think it is a fair measureChild benefit is to be axed for higher rate taxpayers from 2013, Chancellor George Osborne has announced. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
June 22, 2010George Osborne ? Telegraph BlogsSend by Benedict BroganIn my column this morning I look at George Osborne's place in the Tory project. Back when the Corfu affair was buffeting the leadership, he offered to step aside as Shadow Chancellor. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010George Osborne To Cap Welfare PaymentsSend by www.independent.co.ukSpeaking to the Conservative conference in Birmingham, George Osborne did not put a figure on the new welfare cap, but said that - with the exception of the disabled - no family will receive more in benefits than the average family receives from going out to work. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
June 22, 2010Osborne Says U.K. Budget Deficit To Narrow To $29.3 ...Posted by Willian SmithChancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said the government will cut the deficit to 20 billion pounds by 2015 to 2016. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010Business Leaders Tell George Osborne Britain Can't Just Cut Its ...Send by marketmakerFinance minister George Osborne will announce the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition's budget before parliament at 1130 GMT.Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne has already said that he will seek to "significantly accelerate" the [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down |
June 22, 2010World Finance Ministers Back George Osborne's Deficit Reduction ...Send by ConservativeHomeGeorge Osborne is on his way back from South Korea where he has been meeting other finance ministers from the G20. The G20 was one of Gordon Brown's favoured fora and I'm not sure he will be pleased to read the communique emerging from [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010George Osborne Will Buy Own Christmas Tree After Labour Spent 800 ...Send by News | Mail OnlineLabour spent 800 on a Christmas tree for number 11: I'll go down the market and buy my own, says George Osborne. "In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Mr Osborne said: 'In my job you see how much money is wasted - and in [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010Fixated On The Poor, Have Tories Forgotten The Middle?Send by Wall Street Journal (blog)In choosing to announce the end of child benefit for those paying 40% tax, George Osborne has at least ensured that Conservative conference this year will [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010A Word Of Caution For George Osborne Re The IMFSend by Jim PickardThis letter to the FT yesterday (about the perils of putting too much faith in important-sounding institutions) was such a corker I thought it was worth replicating in full: From Prof Simon Mohun. Sir, Your front page (Pressure mounts [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |
October 05, 2010Steve Richards: Plenty Of Politics, But Where Was The Economics In Osborne's Speech?Send by www.independent.co.ukFor a government wary of targets George Osborne has set the toughest centrally agreed objective of any administration in recent decades. The Chancellor has stated that his target is to wipe out the deficit in a single parliament. Much of his speech yesterday was to establish the political framework before he sets out on his hazardous journey. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 starsRate up / Rate down |