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Is the UK on the road to disaster? Those who believe it is insist that it is mad to tackle a calamity caused by excessive borrowing with still more borrowing, this time by the government as borrower and lender of last resort. These criticisms are wrong and right: wrong, if the government remains ...
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Comment, analysis and other offerings from Friday’s FT, Martin Wolfe: How Britain flirts with disaster Is the UK on the road to disaster? Those who believe it is insist that it is mad to tackle a calamity caused by excessive borrowing with still more borrowing, this time by the government as borrower and lender of last resort. ...
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... . Because "the British government plans to issue £369 billion ($585 billion) of debt over the next seven years, almost as much again as the face value of outstanding conventional gilts, which stands at £460 billion. "Citigroup is [also] forecasting a 40% increase in bond issuance in the Eurozone and a doubling of issuance in America ...Will the appetite for bonds continue as governments churn out more debt?" Writing in today's Financial Times , "A creditworthy government can shift excess debt from the private sector on to the backs of taxpayers," notes Martin Wolf. "An ...
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