Posts Tagged ‘figures’

Unemployment rate in Europe – six times higher than official figures?

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

Nearly ten million people in Britain are out of work – more than six times the official unemployment rate – it was revealed last night.

The ‘hidden army’ of jobless accounts for a quarter of the working-age population.

Critics said the staggering numbers represented a ‘huge pool of wasted talent’ and fuelled concerns about the drain on the economy.

See link – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=475517&in_page_id=1770

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Isn’t it about time that car manufacturers started quoting fuel economy figures in the units they are sold in?

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Why quote mileage in mpg when petrol is sold in the UK in litres?

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Why did the lower UK GDP figures cause the sterling to depreciate?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

With the news last week that the UK Economy contracted by 0.4%, why did the pound to lose value even though the FTSE increased on the news?

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