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New economics of Christmas
What is so seriously wrong with Christmas? Waldfogel believes that it is festival of inefficiency ... of Christmas. He asked a range of people how much they would be willing to pay for the things they had been ... [...] to economist Joel Waldfogen, every Christmas destroys $12 billion of wealth through waste and inefficiency ...
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Ghost Town Britain crisis hidden by Christmas glitz
15 December 2003 A new report released today shows that the loss of local banks, pubs, pharmacies, shops and post offices in the UK has continued leaving more communities wit ...
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Some festive Payment by Results
public services, but could it help you get through the family Christmas ... Ho Ho Ho. It’s Christmas time. A time of eating, drinking and spending time with those who ... family members who are generally hard work. Imagine that to try and stimulate the Christmas cheer ...
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Hospital cleaners worth more to society than City bankers, says new nef research
to spend their generous Christmas bonuses, a report from nef (the new economics foundation) published ... ' A Bit Rich As City bankers plan how to spend their generous Christmas ...
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Who will tame the giant vampire squid?
, Executive Director, 38 Degrees: "Whilst the rest of us suffer cuts to our services and brace for the post-Christmas ...
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More talk about pay and value
last Christmas, we were clear that there is no quick fix for resolving complex issues of pay and worth ...
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Two tales of a city
could not afford to pay the ever increasing rent and closed for good on Christmas Eve. A friend of mine ...
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Why I'm backing deliberative consulation for power 2010
democratic. They did so in their thousands, and over Christmas a team of experts distilled the entries ...
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New banking partnership sounds death knell for predatory lenders
As new figures predict record Christmas debt, innovative banking partnership scales up to sound death ... on the day that the CBP is launched, predict record levels of consumer debt in the UK this Christmas. Those ... , the real scandal this Christmas is that the most vulnerable consumers in Britain are prey to interest rates ...
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2010 : The international year for biodiversity
, and the Christmas festivities haven’t made us any lighter . Biodiversity is so important, and so quickly receding ...
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