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Phillip Inman: Rates will remain steady for now, but mortgage payers might play a cautious hand after all the ‘will they, won’t they’ discussion
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Phillip Inman: A bigger economy was supposed to mean profitable firms paying more tax. And more employment was supposed to push up income tax receipts
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What Thomas Piketty has shown us, is that since 1980, it is only the rich and the very rich who have benefited from growth, writes Roger Farmer
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British Retail Consortium says warm September partly to blame but says spending on big-ticket items remains strong
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