This is really a rather amusing piece from Andrew Haldane.

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An interesting piece by Andrew Orlowski over at The Register.

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Recall how uber-conservative Andrew Breitbart published a small piece of a speech Ms. Sherrod delivered which, when viewed without full context, made Sherrod appear to be using her position with the USDA to discriminate against white farmers.

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And following a brave piece of captaincy from Andrew Flintoff, Panesar had his revenge over Symonds before deceiving Adam Gilchrist.

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Ms Watkins was not slow to blame former Enron boss Jeffrey Skilling and chief finance officer Andrew Fastow as the villains of the piece, who deliberately sought by false accounting to inflate Enron's profits and conceal its losses.

BBC: At the Enron hearings

Facebook shares on Tuesday morning have retreated to a new all-time low, perhaps thanks in part to an added shove from a stunning attack piece by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin on Facebook CFO David Ebersman.

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And it brings to mind a highly controversial piece of economic work by Professors Andrew Hughes-Hallett and Drew Scott, published last year, which argued that the act of devolving tax power in itself can drive up growth rates, at least temporarily.

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Andrew Griffin, owner of the Cappuccino Cafe at the Piece Hall, said he welcomed the plans.

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Local councillor Andrew Cumpsty said removing it would be "throwing away another piece of Reading's history".

BBC: Campaign to save 1930s Reading bus shelter

In a New York Times opinion piece entitled A Bank Levy in Cyprus, and Why Not to Worry, Andrew Ross Sorkin assured his readers that far from Armageddon the Cyprian banking crisis is unique and therefore nothing to worry about.

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What with the Independent Banking Commission (which came up with the basic proposals) and the Parliamentary Commission on Banking led by Andrew Tyrie (which debated the first draft of the bill last autumn), this is not a piece of legislation that has been under-discussed.

BBC: UK banking reforms: What's new?

Andrew Percy, Conservative MP for Brigg and Goole, who supports the bill said Mr Chope believed "every piece of legislation should be debated properly".

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