Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] appreciation of the pound expected from its imminent status as a ‘petro-currrency’, the government would raise interest rates to ‘control the money supply’. Which is what the Conservative government elected in 1979 did. Increased interest rates made the pound attractive, pushing up the value of sterling. Frank Blackaby noted that, during the great rise […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Murdoch has a slyer sense of humour than we realised, since it was precisely the abolition of the ‘fairness doctrine’ that enabled the growth of the rabidly- conservative self-styled ‘fair and balanced’ Fox News. Murdoch’s covert pas de deux with the Gipper raises interesting questions about news coverage of some of the 14 CIA’s […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] great demand. In October 2018 he spoke at ‘a conference of hedge funders who were brought together every year by Niall Ferguson, the British historian, writer and conservative commentator’. (p. 265) He was also involved in trying to secure alternative funding for Marine Le Pen’s Front National. He proposed they replace their Russian backers […]