guardian.co.uk - 10/20/2008
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling leaving the House of Commons Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling leaving the House of Commons. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty images
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Joined-up government
Stumbling and Mumbling —
... 2. Woolas also says that “If you've got skills shortages you should, as a government, attempt to fill those skills shortages with your indigenous population.” This is inconsistent with Alistair Darling’s plan to accelerate infrastructure spending. If you want a hospital built quickly, you haven’t the time to train up Brits to build it, but must instead use foreign labour. Darling’s plan, if successful, will help keep migrant workers in the UK. ...
Monday morning links
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... firm arranged stealth campaign - AP Agents warn housing market meltdown is global - Henley Standard US house prices face long fall to bottom: analysts - AFP FED/TREASURY/BANKING U.S. seeks ways to get banks to lend, not hoard, new capital - LA Times Is credit crisis over? Not so fast - MSN Money Bush Needs to Send in Reinforcements to the Fed - Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Darling invokes Keynes as he eases spending rules to fight recession - Guardian Do our rulers know enough to ...
Invoking Keynes
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... In the meantime, politicians and economists continue down this increasingly worn path as evidenced by this report in today's Guardian about new spending plans in the U.K. to combat the economic slowdown. ...
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