Since then, payroll taxes have only become much less equitable.

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Not only does the UK need to become less reliant on debt-fuelled consumer spending, and become more of an investment-led and exporting economy, but it also needs to re-orient its trade away from economies as hobbled as Britain itself.

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But they may not raise as much money as they had hoped, if only because the operations they want to float have become a lot less valuable than they were.

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But whether or not China helped cause the crisis, there is not much debate that it needs to be part of the solution, because without higher Chinese consumption in China, the only way the global economy will become more balanced in future, with less debt on countries like Britain and America, is by those countries also having little or no economic growth.

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If we were to design a social enterprise ecosystem only to address the pressing issues of today, before long it would become less relevant, even obsolete, as the nature of existing social challenges change while new problems emerge.

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LTCM, banks have become less willing to lend to hedge funds, which provide them with only minimal information about what they are up to.

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That will only happen, in Mr Hundal's view, when blogs become more about providing new journalism and less about discussion.

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But, as people have grown richer, they have become less willing to take manual jobs that are seen as undesirable and undignified, and often pay only the minimum wage.

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