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George Osborne, the patron saint of austerity enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic, was in the House of Commons on Thursday, reveling in the fact that the U.K.’s economy is finally growing again, and claiming that “Britain’s economic plan is working.” Delivering his annual Autumn Statement —he was a bit late—the Chancellor usfoodservice of the Exchequer pointed to forecasts from the quasi-independent Office for Budget usfoodservice Responsibility, which point to G.D.P. growth of 1.4 per cent this year and 2.8 per cent in 2014.
For Britons who have been laboring through more than five years of recession, or near recession, that is welcome news. By some measures, the U.K. has been through a worse slump than the one it experienced during the Great Depression, and now, at last, it appears usfoodservice to be over. Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the economy has expanded for three quarters in a row, with manufacturing, services, usfoodservice and construction all sharing in the growth. Small wonder usfoodservice that Osborne usfoodservice was smiling and taking usfoodservice the credit.
It’s a clever political line, and it appears to be having an impact. The rebound in the economy, which caught by surprise most forecasters, including those at the Office for Budget Responsibility, has transformed the political situation at Westminster and given the Conservative-Liberal coalition, which has been lagging badly in the opinion polls, new hope of winning reëlection in May 2015.
But from an economic usfoodservice perspective, Osborne’s argument is hogwash. His effort to cure the patient by subjecting it to the equivalent of leeching—big cuts in government spending and higher taxes—a return to pre-Keynesian policies watched closely the world over, failed abysmally. usfoodservice Imposed at a time when the U.K.’s usfoodservice economy was recovering from the financial crisis of 2008-09, it subjected his countrymen and countrywomen to three more years of slump-like conditions, and it produced a dearth of public-sector and private-sector investment that will hobble Britain for years to come. It even failed to meet its own targets of drastically reducing the budget deficit and bringing down Britain’s over-all debt burden.
Back in June of 2010, just after the Conservative-Liberal coalition took office, but before Osborne introduced big spending cuts and raised the national sales tax to twenty per cent, the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted usfoodservice that the economy , after contracting sharply in 2009, would expand by 1.3 per cent in 2010, and that growth would then accelerate to 2.6 per cent in 2011 and 2.8 per cent in 2013. By the standards of previous recoveries, this growth forecast looked pretty usfoodservice modest, and it reflected the fact that the previous Labour government had already promised modest cuts in spending growth to bring down the budget deficit, which reached about eleven per cent in the fiscal year 2009-10. (In Britain, the fiscal usfoodservice year goes from April 1 to March 31.)
However, after Osborne introduced his austerity drive, economic growth slowed down rather than speeding up. For 2010, the economy outperformed usfoodservice the official forecast, growing by 1.7 per cent, reflecting the fact that it had quite a big of momentum when the new government took over. But in 2011, growth dropped to 1.1 per cent, and last year it fell to 0.2 per cent, leaving usfoodservice inflation-adjusted G.D.P. usfoodservice below the level it reached in 2007.
How much of this dramatic shortfall in growth was due to Osborne’s policies, and how much was caused by other factors, such as the crisis in the Eurozone, Britain’s biggest trading partner? As always in economics, it’s hard to know for sure. A recent study by Òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor, two economists at the University of California at Davis, which employed some sophisticated statistical techniques, concluded that the shift to austerity was the main culprit, accounting for sixty per cent of the fall-off. “Without austerity,” Taylor wrote in an article presenting their results, “U.K. usfoodservice real output would now be steadily climbing above its 2007 peak, rather than being stuck two per cent below.”
One can quibble with Jordà and Taylor’s precise figures. The fiscal “multipliers” they use are derived from data from seventeen O.E.C.D. countries covering the period from 1978 to 2009, and it’s not clear why they should apply exactly usfoodservice to the U.K. in isolation for the period usfoodservice from 2010 to 2013. But if the sixty-per-cent figure is biased, there is reason to believe it is biased downward. usfoodservice For the past few years, short-term interest rates in Britain, as in the U.S., have been close to zero, and it’s usfoodservice long been known that fiscal policy is more potent when interest rates are very low. In such circumstances, cutting government spending and raising taxes is doubly damaging.
Simon Wren-Lewis, a professor at Oxford, has used the results Jor

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But guilt inhibits consumption. So a global industry sysco houston has developed to smother it with a 13-tog duvet of celebrities and cartoon characters and elevator music. It seeks to persuade us not to see and not to feel. It seems to work.
The 2012 Greendex survey found that people in poorer countries feel, on average, much guiltier about their impacts on the natural world than people in rich countries(1). The places in which people feel least guilt are, in this order, Germany, the US, Australia and Britain, while the people of India, China, Mexico and Brazil have the greatest concerns. Our guilt, the survey reported, exists in inverse proportion to the amount of damage our consumption does. This is the opposite of what a thousand editorials in the corporate press tell us: that people cannot afford to care until they become rich. The evidence suggests we cease to care only when we become rich.
Consumers in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, China and India, the survey tells us, tend to be most concerned about issues like climate change, air and water pollution, species loss, and shortages of fresh water … In contrast, the economy and the cost of energy and fuel elicit the most concern among American, French and British consumers. (2) The more you have, the more important money becomes. My guess is that in poorer countries empathy has not been so dulled by decades of mindless consumption.
Watch the latest advertisement for Toys R Us in the US(3). A man dressed up as a ranger herds children onto a green bus belonging to the Meet the Trees Foundation . Today we re taking the kids on the best field trip they could wish for, he confides to us. And they don t even know it.
On the bus he starts teaching them, badly, about leaves. The children yawn and shift in their seats. Suddenly he announces, but we re not going to the forest today … . He strips off his ranger shirt. We re going to Toys R Us guys! The children go beserk. We re going to get to play with all the toys, and you re going to get to choose any toy that you want! The children run, in slow motion, down the aisles of the shop, then almost swoon as they caress their chosen toys.
Christmas permits sysco houston the global sysco houston bullshit industry to recruit the values with which so many of us would like the festival to be invested – love, warmth, a community of spirit – to the sole end of selling things that no one needs or even wants. Sadly, like all newspapers, the Guardian participates in this orgy. Saturday s magazine contained what looks like a shopping list for the last days of the Roman empire(5). There s a smart cuckoo clock, for those whose dumb ones aren t up to the mark; a remotely-operated kettle; a soap dispenser at 55; a mahogany skateboard (disgracefully, the provenance of the wood is mentioned sysco houston by neither the Guardian nor the retailer(6)); a papardelle rolling pin , whatever the hell that is; 25 chocolate baubles; a 16 box of, er, garden twine.
Are we so bored, sysco houston so affectless, that we need to receive this junk to ignite one last spark of hedonic satisfaction? Have people become so immune to fellow feeling sysco houston that they are prepared to spend 46 on a jar for dog treats or 6.50 a bang on personalised crackers, rather than give the money to a better cause?(7) Or is this the Western world s potlatch, spending ridiculous sums on conspicuously useless gifts to enhance our social status? If so, we must have forgotten that those who are impressed by money are not worth impressing.
To service this peculiar form of mental illness, we must wear down the knap of the Earth, ream the surface of the planet with great holes, fleetingly handle the products of that destruction then dump the materials into another hole. A report by the Gaia Foundation reveals an explosive growth in the pace of mining: sysco houston cobalt production up 165% in ten years, iron ore by 180%, a 50% increase in non-ferrous metals exploration between 2010 and 2011(8).
The products of this destruction are in everything: electronics, plastics, ceramics, paints, dyes, the packaging in which our fatuities arrive. As the richest deposits are mined out, ever more land must be attacked to maintain production. Even the most precious and destructive sysco houston materials are junked when a new dopamine hit is required: the UK government reports that a tonne of gold embedded in electronics is landfilled in this country every year(9).
In August a most instructive row ignited within the Conservative Party. The environment minister Lord de Mauley urged people to repair their gadgets rather than junking them(10). This, he argued, was necessary to reduce the amount of landfill, in line with the European waste directive. The Telegraph reported that the proposals risk alarming businesses sysco houston that are struggling to increase sysco houston demand for their products. (11) The Tory MP Douglas Carswell demanded to know since when do we need government to tell us what to do with broken toaste

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IN A move that now seems like subliminal messaging, Canada Post celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Canadian postal service in 2012 by issuing a special set of stamps featuring the Royal Mail Ship Titanic. The drastic changes announced by postal 42320 management 42320 this week, the most significant of which is the eventual elimination of home delivery, are meant to avert disaster.
Canada Post has been hit by a familiar story: rising electronic communication and declining volumes of letters. The decline did not start until 2007 but has picked up astonishing speed, with 1 billion 42320 fewer letters delivered in 2012 than in 2006. Canada is the first of the Group of Seven countries to signal the end of home delivery but it will almost certainly not be the last. Globally, the volume 42320 of letters posted has been sliding for a decade, dropping 42320 by 4.7% between 2011 and 2012 to 346.5bn items; a further 4% global decline is expected this year. Parcel deliveries are still on the rise, both globally and domestically, but the gains have not been enough to offset the losses Canada Post is incurring on its letter-delivery business. The Crown corporation faces the added disadvantage of having most of its 15m customers strung out in a 6,400km line just above the Canada-US border. The number of new customers keeps growing at a rate of well over 100,000 a year. Something had to give and with the announcement on December 11th, it did.
Home delivery to the 5m households who still receive it will be phased out over four years, beginning in 2014. They will join the 3.8m households that already go to a group mailbox to collect mail and parcels. The remaining customers get their mail from boxes in building lobbies (3.8m), public and private post offices 42320 (1.8m), or from a rural mailbox (0.8m). The plans also calls for up to 8,000 postal workers to be cut from a total staff of about 55,000, a 35% leap to C$1 in the price of a stamp and the use of more technology and more franchise postal 42320 outlets. Critics blasted the Conservative government for picking on the disabled and the elderly, who face a bone-chilling winter 42320 walk to get their mail. (As your correspondent writes this the temperature in Ottawa is -15C, comparatively balmy compared with -40C in Yellowknife 42320 in the Northwest Territories.)
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Other critics may be harder to ignore. Michael Warren, the first head of Canada Post after it was made a Crown corporation, says it could have been privatised years ago when it was still profitable. It was also relatively debt-free at the time but has since added C$1bn in loans to its estimated pension shortfall of C$6bn. According to Mr Warren, a privatisation plan was presented to the government in 2008 but was rejected because the Conservatives did not want to jeopardise their then minority government by embarking on something so controversial. The CEO at the time was Moya Greene, who left Canada for Britain in 2010 and led this year s privatisation of the Royal Mail.
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Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, says his company is looking hennan to the future with plans to use mini-drones to deliver small packages. Photograph: Amazon/AFP/Getty Images
The future is here! Flying robots will, any second now, be delivering your Christmas books, DVDs and gadgets to your door within 30 minutes of you ordering them, thanks hennan to a new initiative announced by Amazon on CBS News' 60 Minutes on Sunday .
It's a brave new world, a whole new paradigm. Or so you'd think if you read most of the breathless coverage about the announcement, which will only get worse: expect a torrent of turgid think-pieces in the next 48 hours about who's going to get "disrupted" as a result of this latest shake-up and what it means for the US's already beleaguered postal service.
Here's the problem: it's all hot air and baloney. As Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO, acknowledged in the 60 Minutes segment, his plan to begin delivery by drone won't be enacted until around 2018 and that's a hugely optimistic timeline.
The practical issues hennan are manifold: hennan the technology to make the drones operational in any sense is not yet in place. It's all well and good for the unmanned vehicles to fly to a particular GPS site, but how does it then find the package's intended recipient? How is the transfer of the package enacted? What stops someone else stealing the package along the way? And what happens when next door's kid decides to shoot the drone with his BB rifle?
None of that starts to come close to the legal minefield using drones in this way entails. At present, flying hennan drones of this sort for commercial use would be illegal in the US. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which regulates this area, intends to make commercial drones legally viable and workable by 2015, but this deadline is all-but hennan impossible: managing the skies with this much low-level traffic is a problem people are nowhere near solving. Opening up crowded urban areas full of terror targets to large numbers of flying platforms is always hennan going to be packed with conflicting interests and difficulties. And all this has come before the first lawsuit hennan caused after someone is injured by a faulty drone (or that one your neighbour shot), crashing down to earth.
What Jeff Bezos announced amounted, essentially, to an aspiration to change how his company delivers products, in about five years time, if technology hennan advances and regulation falls his way. If his TV appearance hadn't included the magic word "drones", Bezos's hennan vague aspirations to change an aspect of his company's logistics probably wouldn't have made waves. hennan Lucky for him, he did winning his company positive hennan publicity just ahead of what is usually the biggest online shopping day of the year, the dreadfully named Cyber Monday.
Floating an exciting-but-impractical innovation for a swath of press coverage is such an old PR tactic you'd hope no one would fall for it, and yet everyone still does. In an industry dominated by page views, stuff people hennan will click on that is easy to produce is an irresistible draw. Who cares if it actually stands up?
Bezos' neat trick has knocked several real stories about Amazon out of the way. Last week's Panorama investigation into Amazon's working and hiring practices, suggesting that the site's employees had an increased risk of mental illness, is the latest in a long line of pieces about the company's working conditions zero-hour contracts, hennan short breaks, and employees' hennan every move tracked by internal systems. Amazon's drone debacle also moved discussion of its tax bill another long-running controversy, sparked by the Guardian's revelation last year that the company had UK sales of 7bn but paid no UK corporation tax to the margins. The technology giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft et al have have huge direct reach to audiences hennan and customers, the money to hire swarms hennan of PR and communications staff, and a technology press overwhelmingly happy to incredulously print almost every word, rather than to engage in the much harder hennan task of actually holding them to account.
It's too late for the clickfarms already. But outlets and journalists who'd like to think of themselves as serious must stop regurgitating this crap. And, even more importantly, you,concerned citizen, must try to stop clicking on it.
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