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Tag Archives: Poverty
Why we should not be shut up about pensioner poverty – it exists and it shouldn’t.
If you’d been at the ICAS “how to avert the pension crisis” debate on Tuesday, you’ll remember that part of the conversation when we discussed the Institute of Fiscal studies’ contention that we were having difficulty spending our retirement savings. … Continue reading
A tale of two Cities
Have you ever turned up at a place and realised you shouldn’t be there – but stayed anyway just to see what it was like? That’s what happened to me yesterday. I went to an event about … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Blogging, London, Treasury, welfare
Tagged Bankers, Banking, Boris Johnson, Business, City of London, Employment, England, Eversheds, London, Mark Boleat, Poverty, Will Hutton
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Is optimism enough?
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” Mr Micawber’s character was based on Dickens’ own father. Dickens must have loved his Dad. The Micawber … Continue reading
Happiness and harm
Time will tell whether the Coalition Government has created a credible and sustainable system which allows us to measure and understand “government finances and the structure of the State”.
Posted in dc pensions, NEST, pensions, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Basic State Pension, David Cameron, dc pensions, Diane Coyle, Economics, Frank Field, John Stuart Mill, NEST, pension, Pension Poverty, pensions, Poverty, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Society, Treasury
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