The April employment figures strengthen the case for another 0.5 per cent cut in US key rates next week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If you are not among the 12 million people who live in, work in or generally interact with, London every day, you may be bored stiff with the debate about how to revive the Underground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The UK is the only G7 country not cutting its spending to GDP ratio between 1999 and 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Bank of England has a better argument than the Fed did to cut interest rates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The economics are turning against it, and Big Brother has new ways of watching you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Emeralds come cheap in Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Companies need to read Burns and 'see themselves as others see us' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perhaps Gordon Brown should be grateful to the IFS for bringing his statistics down to earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As a student of economics, I was introduced to the idea that all things were programmed to happen cyclically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He avoided looking me in the eye and pushed his radicchio around his plate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Pragnell, chief executive officer of Syngentia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .