Entries from Brickonomics tagged with 'politics'
How to save 150,000 construction jobs, earn the Treasury £16 billion and create 200,000 new homes
Imagine that Chancellor Alistair Darling had decided to boost public spending by investing £20 billion of taxpayers' money over the next two years in buying land and building homes earmarked for eventual open market sale. What would be the net...
Is this the worst time to be "more relaxed"?
I am sure I will not be the only one who draws this parallel. But I suspect it is a classic illustration of why credibility matters in both politics and economics. George Bush on the US economy, October 2008: "I...
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