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’[Gavyn Davies] What Osborne did today
So what did the Chancellor actually do today to change macro-economic strategy in the UK Budget?
In one important sense, he seems to have done little or nothing. The path for the structural budget deficit has been left almost exactly the same as it was after the 2010 Budget.
A sudden rise in Britain’s debt-to-GDP figures? Blame the banks
Well, this took a while.
From the Office for National Statistics and with a H/T to Ian Fraser:
The Office for National Statistics and HM Treasury jointly publishes monthly estimates of the Public Sector Finances (PSF).
Coins of the UK (public spending) realm
Got a spare 10 minutes? Some technical expertise? Experience in handling large volumes of data?
Then you might be able to get some use from the just-released UK Coins data. That’s the Combined On-line Information System,
Want to help Greece? There’s an account for that.
Now you too can help support the Greek economy.
The National Bank of Greece — which is not, by the way, the central bank of the Hellenic Republic — is encouraging visitors to its website to “deposit money into the ‘Solidarity Account’ for the nation’s public debt”.
Europe borrowed under – state of things to come?
Up, up and away: European commercial mid to long-term government borrowing is likely to hit a historic €1,446bn in 2010, rating agency Standard & Poor’s said in a note on Thursday.
That’s a €52bn jump from 2009′s peak,
The UK’s BB debt
Sean Corrigan of Diapason Securities brings us the following chart:
The clue is in the acronym (it’s a duo).