Historians will marvel at the extraordinary escalation in executive pay from 24 times worker pay in 1965 to 275 times worker pay in 2007, at a time when the rate of return on assets of US companies declined by 75% and the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune declined from 75 years to less than 15 years.

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Chancellor George Osborne says in the Times that the lesson still to be learnt from Baroness Thatcher at this time of economic gloom is optimism.

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