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<title>Housing emphasis evokes past politicians</title>
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<description>Osborne stirs memories of former prime ministers, such as Thatcher and Blair, with plans to encourage home ownership at the centre of his Budget</description>
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<title>Osborne vows to drive UK growth</title>
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<description>Chancellor says he is ‘very happy’ to accept OBR wants to see how his Budget interventions pan out, but he is determined to make them work</description>
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<title>Budget 2013: Highlights</title>
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<description>Chancellor cut growth forecasts but offered help to home buyers and businesses in the 2013 budget</description>
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<title>Flaws spotted in Help to Buy scheme</title>
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<description>The chancellor’s scheme, promising £12bn of ‘guarantees’ to support £130bn of mortgages, was designed to let families without large deposits buy a home</description>
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<title>Treasury dismisses Fannie Mae comparisons</title>
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<description>The US government was forced to bail out the mortgage giants at the height of the credit crunch, which by then had issued $5tn of mortgages</description>
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<title>Osborne seeks Lib Dem help in shares plan</title>
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<description>Chancellor turns to coalition party for support in pushing through the controversial ‘shares for workers’ rights’ plan after senior Tory peers rebelled</description>
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<title>A convincing story can restore growth</title>
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<description>Successful economies, such as those of South Korea or the Nordic countries, are not just preoccupied with sound public finances, says Richard Lambert</description>
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<title>UK growth problem may kill fiscal maths</title>
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<description>The “ugly duckling to swan” story has been told recurrently by the coalition government and is beginning to lose credibility, writes Stephen King</description>
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<title>Shrewd politics hides brutal economics</title>
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<description>Chancellor cannot disguise the fact outcomes for economic activity and public finances are drifting further from expectations, writes Martin Wolf</description>
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<title>A Budget for tomorrow rather than today</title>
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<description>The chancellor appears to treat his responsibility for short-term growth with nonchalance since his measures are too small to alter demand now</description>
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<title>It’s the monetary policy that matters</title>
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<description>Serious macroeconomic consideration of the Budget should centre on the Treasury’s supplementary monetary review, writes Samuel Brittan</description>
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<title>Five ways to fix the Budget joke</title>
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<description>The chancellor could start by scrapping national insurance entirely and raising the lost revenue through income tax, writes Tim Harford</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:32:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Squeezed middle battles financial pain</title>
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<description>Median earners struggle to defend their place in the economic pecking order in the face of rising bills, stagnating wages and dimming job prospects</description>
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<title>Osborne’s play for the strivers</title>
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<description>The chancellor remains vulnerable to charges of complacency in the face of economic stagnation in the here and now, writes Janan Ganesh</description>
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<title>High earners lose out in tax shake-up</title>
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<description>More income subject to higher-rate levy and possibly more national insurance too</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Q&amp;A: Your Budget questions answered</title>
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<description>Patrick Stevens, president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation answers readers’ questions</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:58:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Two sides of the same tarnished coin</title>
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<description>Had your money been sitting on deposit in the UK for the past four years you would now be worse off than if you had kept it in Cyprus</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Why I condemn this Budget to the house</title>
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<description>Schemes to support the housing market might bring short-term relief, but carry huge long-term risks</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:59:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Investors avoid the fiscal dragnet</title>
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<description>Lots of incentives to spend, borrow and invest, but not much comfort for savers and those on higher incomes</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:58:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>More help for homebuyers and investors in smaller companies</description>
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<description>Personal finance experts respond to the speech</description>
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<title>Osborne bids to help homebuyers</title>
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<description>‘Help to Buy’ consists of two schemes designed to improve mortgage availability for borrowers with small deposits</description>
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<title>Parents gain choice on savings</title>
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<description>Cash trapped in low-paying child trust funds will become transferable to junior Isas that can pay double the current interest rate</description>
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<title>Stamp duty on Aim shares abolished</title>
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<description>Move to revitalise the ailing junior market means buyers of shares will become exempt from the 0.5 per cent tax from next April</description>
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<title>Residential property is big winner</title>
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<description>Industry hopes the chancellor’s promise to invest £12bn in underpinning up to £130bn of mortgages will stimulate transactions across the country</description>
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