The plan to redraw constituencies and shrink MP numbers is part of a pair of electoral changes that the government will put to Parliament on September 6th.

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If so, the biggest part of the banks' balance-sheets would actually shrink relative to GDP.

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Here you can see how the gold standard system can expand and shrink the money supply as appropriate, as part of the mechanism that maintains the value of the currency at its parity rate.

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March could yet help turn things around, but if next week's survey of the larger services part of the economy is also weak, there is a distinct possibility that national output will shrink again, in the first three months of this year.

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