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		<title>It pays to riot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Britain&#8217;s &#8220;top GP&#8221; launched a scathing attack on widespread &#8220;reckless behaviour towards food, alcohol and cigarettes&#8221;, which he claims is causing growing levels of disease and early death. In this dramatic intervention in the public health debate, Professor Steve Field criticises parents, mothers-to-be, the very overweight, smokers and drinkers (and pretty much everyone other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=813</link>
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		<title>Holy crow&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report published this week identified that Britons spend about 45% of their waking hours absorbing media from technology ranging from laptop computers and mobile phones to television and radio. Of that time we spend 25% of the day on the internet and more specifically on social networking sites &#8211; if you see someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=805</link>
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		<title>On or off balance sheet?</title>
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What has been the best investment the British government has made during the last 10 years? Investments in education, the health service, roads, the Olympics? All almost undeniably noble efforts, but from a purely financial perspective the investments into banks at the peak of the financial crisis look like a decent contender. In one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=796</link>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t handle the truth&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Benn, the left wing Labour MP, wrote a book recently called Letters to my Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future. In one of the letters he writes: &#8220;When your parents were your age, and the United States and Soviet Union were racing to land on the moon, the Russians put down a little robotic machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=787</link>
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		<title>The Not-So Nuclear Deterrent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the old driving regulations in Ireland there was no &#8216;points&#8217; system for speeding related offences &#8211; it was a purely financial based fines system. In old money, pre-Euro, it was around £30 punts, and latterly 50 euros for anything but obscene speeding offences. No wonder Ireland has had one of the worst records in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=774</link>
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		<title>The Stress Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the ironies of the recent oil spill debacle in the Gulf of Mexico is that the oil and gas industry is most often credited with devising and putting to use so-called scenario planning. This management tool is meant to anticipate major changes in the environment – from disaster to depression, to blown pipes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=767</link>
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		<title>The Fudge Factor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of years many millions of words have been written by a whole host of different commentators on the whys and wherefores of the global economic crisis. Some of those commentators are highly respected, some are less so, some are old and experienced and some less so. With the benefit of 20-20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=759</link>
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		<title>Beyond Austerity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday morning last week the £1 sterling in my pocket could buy a full $1.47 worth of George Washington&#8217;s on the foreign exchange markets. On Wednesday afternoon the UK&#8217;s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, stood up in the House of Commons to present his emergency budget, which outlined a virtually unprecedented set of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=750</link>
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		<title>The Great Global Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a book called the The Post American World &#8211; which opened with the line: &#8220;This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.&#8221; Fareed Zakaria, the book&#8217;s author, describes a world in which the US will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=738</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s great to be an economist&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The prize for the most cheerful headline of the week, goes to the Daily Telegraph for its most read finance article: &#8220;Euro &#8216;will be dead in five years&#8217;&#8221;. This was the most striking conclusion of a survey carried out by the paper of 25 London based economists covering a variety of topics.
Of the 25 economists who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aidanneill.com/?p=733</link>
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