One efficiency increaser for me in the native app are the double arrows in the top right corner that appear while reading messages that let you move to the previous and following message without revisiting the inbox.

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Interestingly, the tone of an article in today's FT by Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, seems to imply that stimulating short-term growth is now perceived by the IMF to be more important than immediate deficit reduction - which is not quite the same message as that of the British Chancellor, George Osborne, in his newspaper article of the previous day.

BBC: Growth vs debt reduction

It had been more than a year from the previous message when he put out an audiotape in January and there hasn't been a video of him since his election-eve message of October 2004.

CNN: Gone quiet