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Daily Archives: Monday, January 14, 2013
Not even remotely correct
There has been a bit of fun in the last week, with the IMF accusing our previous conservative government (10 increasing surpluses out of 11 years in power – 1996-2007) of being the only period of profligate fiscal policy over … Read the rest of this entry
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