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Insurers to provide clearer renewal quotes
The BBC: When consumers are informed of a new premium, they are not usually reminded what they paid previously. As a result, some customers may not even be aware that the cost of their insurance...
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Private hospitals ‘must provide more safety data’
The BBC: Private hospitals should release the same levels of data about patient safety incidents as NHS providers, a report says. The organisation behind the report says it is difficult for the public...
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Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else review
The Guardian: Privatisation, rather than ushering in an era of consumer power and open competition, has led to monopolistic stitch-ups against consumers and allowed fat cats to pay themselves silly...
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The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?
New York Review of Books: The final factor I would mention is both the most subtle and the most systemic of the three, and arguably the most important. It is the shift that has occurred, over the past...
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Pension returns
Tax Research UK: The FT ha an excellent article that anyone with an interest in pensions should read this morning. The argument is clear from the title, which is ‘Fees are a scourge on pension funds‘....
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What Labour’s Red Princes tell us about Britain
The New Statesman: Or perhaps it was natural for Straw, Prescott, Dromey and Kinnock to follow in their parents’ footsteps. The authors found that 10 per cent of lawyers in the US have fathers who do...
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Calculated misery
The New Yorker: If fees are great for airlines, what about for us? Does it make any difference if an airline collects its cash in fees as opposed to through ticket sales? The airlines, and some...
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Elizabeth Warren on “Reigniting Competition in the American Economy”
Via Washington Monthly, Warren’s speech at New America’s Open Markets Program Event: Thank you, thank you. As Barry mentioned, before I was a Senator, I was a law professor. What he didn’t say is that...
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Don’t Buff it up
The Economist notes how Buffett’s investment strategy has changed: But there is another problem with Mr Buffett: his fondness for oligopolies. After being disappointed by returns from textiles in the...
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Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs Vs. Chairs
Slate Star Codex: Let me ask Vox a question: when was the last time that America’s chair industry hiked the price of chairs 400% and suddenly nobody in the country could afford to sit down? When was...
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