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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/throwback-econo.html">Sean O'Grady: Throwback economics</a>

Monday 27 October 2008 13:21 GMT
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Ah, memories. Some of us are old enough to recall the IMF visit to Britain in 1976, and the range of "monetarist" solutions forced on an unwilling Labour government by the Fund.

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