Economy related Fr0nt Page Stories for Monday 20090727

Mr_Mumble

Perhaps the start of a regular posting - depending on response (or lack thereof).

Daily Mail - Cameron's Tax Raid on Middle Classes
Daily Telegraph - Tories Plan Tolls on New Roads
Financial Times - UK Faces Credit Card Crisis on US scale
Financial Times - Traders to face 'fit and proper' FSA
Guardian - Games Tzar To Ensure Legacy of Olympics
The Independent - Business Leaders Fear New Recession

Notes: The list is sorted in order of circulation (i.e. The Sun would come first and the Independent last), 2. web versions of stories often differ to the print editions, 3. if you're wondering what the numbers at the end of the titles is... its the date for future easy searching reference.

Generali

Mr_Mumble wrote: »

Perhaps the start of a regular posting - depending on response (or lack thereof).

Daily Mail - Cameron's Tax Raid on Middle Classes
Daily Telegraph - Tories Plan Tolls on New Roads
Financial Times - UK Faces Credit Card Crisis on US scale
Financial Times - Traders to face 'fit and proper' FSA
Guardian - Games Tzar To Ensure Legacy of Olympics
The Independent - Business Leaders Fear New Recession

Notes: The list is sorted in order of circulation (i.e. The Sun would come first and the Independent last), 2. web versions of stories often differ to the print editions, 3. if you're wondering what the numbers at the end of the titles is... its the date for future easy searching reference.

From the Mail:

Britain was forecast to borrow 14 per cent of national income next year - twice as much as when Labour Chancellor Denis Healey had to go cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund for a loan in 1976.

Generali

Nice idea Mr Mumble. Thanks.

vivatifosi

Great resource Mr Mumble. If you're willing to put this together while the rest of us are tucked up in bed asleep (and I think you're mad to volunteer), then I'd love to see this more often.

michaels

Interesting story (FT) on credit card loses reaching '10%' - surely if they charge on average 22% interest annual losses of 10% still leave a highly profitable business?!

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Great resource Mr Mumble. If you're willing to put this together while the rest of us are tucked up in bed asleep (and I think you're mad to volunteer), then I'd love to see this more often.

Me too. In fact the loss of links in the forum to nws stories has been sorely felt by me in recent months.

Mr_Mumble

Merci for the comments and thanks folks. I look at the front pages religiously so googling a link to the web version shouldn't take too long.

The FT links are a pain in the backside. The ones in the OP linked to the full report last night but now ask you to register, googling the title and clicking always seems to work, these currently work for me:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/02db48fa-7a11-11de-b86f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss (credit card story)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4e03d5aa-7a0b-11de-b86f-00144feabdc0.html (FSA story)

edit: doh, as soon as I post the links they ask for registration! They neither work when I directly click on them nor c&p into the address bar. Is this based on number of times viewed? When you link directly from another website? Anyone know of a neat trick to get FT stories to appear in full consistently?

lostinrates, this'll be a dumb query: "nws" is? (I'd guess not work safe?)

lostinrates

Mr_Mumble wrote: »

lostinrates, this'll be a dumb query: "nws" is? (I'd guess not work safe?)

lostinrates is not work safe thats for sure, but nws was a lir-ism for news. I'm sorry.:o

Mr_Mumble

lol, at least I wasn't caught out by a newfangled TLA :beer:

For anyone who doesn't know what TLA stands for here's a puzzle: it is what it describes.

Generali

Mr_Mumble wrote: »

Merci for the comments and thanks folks. I look at the front pages religiously so googling a link to the web version shouldn't take too long.

The FT links are a pain in the backside. The ones in the OP linked to the full report last night but now ask you to register, googling the title and clicking always seems to work, these currently work for me:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/02db48fa-7a11-11de-b86f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss (credit card story)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4e03d5aa-7a0b-11de-b86f-00144feabdc0.html (FSA story)

edit: doh, as soon as I post the links they ask for registration! They neither work when I directly click on them nor c&p into the address bar. Is this based on number of times viewed? When you link directly from another website? Anyone know of a neat trick to get FT stories to appear in full consistently?

lostinrates, this'll be a dumb query: "nws" is? (I'd guess not work safe?)

IIRC, the FT allows you to read a small number of articles and then asks you to register (which is free unless you want to read the very excellent 'Lex' and some of that is free even).