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Budget Aftermath: a sting in the tail (thisismoney)
$900 gold price (goldprice)
US Sub prime chaos (economist)
UK follow on? (economist)
UK property cycle (dailyreckoning)
UK Inflation worsening (dailyreckoning)
Buy Gas (growthstockwire)
Taking things too far (NYT via wisebread)

US house of cards
Peak Interest rates? (via theratandmouse)
US inflation

Lex (via alphaville)

Godson Brown bets on good times ahead, the point I find interesting is that £10 billion of the money from the budget is through making one off sales.

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Well, the big news is the 2% cut in the basic rate of income tax, along with a few tweaks here and there. Spin for the general election?

BBC report
FT report

Hey everyone - I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with news as it happens!

Pre-Budget Banter:

Big Budget?
Expectations
Brown’s last stand
BBC predictions

Personally I think we’ll get a fairly muted budget with the focus not on the economy. I suspect that the major focus will be developing a platform for Gordon Bron to jump off on his campaign for PM. So I expect a lot of past record back patting, talking up of the economy and stability while any pledges are politically motivated - a green tax or two is a sure thing.