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The political economy of Help to Buy

By admin on April 20, 2013 • ( 2 Comments )

When the Chancellor announced his two-part Help to Buy scheme in the Budget last month it was met with a chorus of disapproval. Representatives from the mortgage and construction industries – who, of course, have a financial interest in seeing the scheme implemented – were positive about it. […]

If We’re Concerned About The Legacy We’re Leaving Our Children…

By admin on August 22, 2011

Today I posted over at Dale & Co: It will be interesting to see how the Chancellor responds to the Treasury Select Committee’s report on the Private Finance Initiative, released to relatively little fanfare on Friday. The Select Committee’s conclusions are stark. The Private Finance Initiative, in its […]

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