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Time to end the age of malinvestment

Read the article at Spectator.co.uk here.

 

 

Summary

Dr Eamonn Butler writes in The Spectator Coffee House on Osborne's plans to offer £140bn to banks to lend money to firms and households. He argues the cure is the problem. The problem was cheap credit that caused huge malinvestment over many years.