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  • Newsnight
  • 19 Dec 07, 10:26 AM

Liz Gibbons is today's programme producer - here is her early email to the team.

Brown's last press conference of the year at 11am - he's bringing Alistair Darling along. So I think he's anticipated the likely line of questioning. Should we assess the state of Brown's premiership? Who do you want to hear from?

Stephanie is trawling through the minutes of the MPC interest rates decision - published this morning.

We've got an update on some of the investigations we ran this year in the form of a 14-ish minute piece.

And - oh my god I can't believe it - an end of year interview with Mark Ronson.

Anything else we should be pursuing?

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  • 1.
  • At 02:08 PM on 19 Dec 2007,
  • Joshua Thomas wrote:

How about covering the 'elephant in the room' that the bbc has ignored for the last two weeks - KEN LIVINGSTONE FUNDING SCANDAL.

Or have the beeb been warned off this story by their worried friends on the left?

How about this, in response to the Central Bankers' attempts to break the credit logjam:
Headed For The Front Page

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Corporate defaults are not front page news yet.
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Commercial real estate woes are not front page news yet.
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Credit card issues are not front page news yet.
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Rapidly rising unemployment is not front page news yet.


The key word in all for point above is "yet". News about housing, subprime lending, SIVs, and other related stories are what dominate the headlines now. However, second, third, and fourth waves of the economic tsunami are coming. Right now, most of those stories have not hit the front page yet, certainly not day after day. They will.

If this $500 billion "emergency funding" was just a year-end phenomenon, that would be one thing. But this is not a liquidity issue this a solvency issue and a growing solvency issue as well. See Missing the Boat on Monetary Easing for more on this topic.

You can't cure drug addicts by giving them more drugs nor can you cure insolvent credit junkies by dramatically increasing the size of the loans. I suspect the "emergency" is going to last a lot longer than the ECB thinks.

Season's greetings!
ed

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There's only one word to describe it, DISPICIBLE! Why doesn't america update their out of date laws re human rights?

  • 4.
  • At 04:50 PM on 19 Dec 2007,
  • John wrote:

Not a suggestion for tonight, but maybe for the future...

Something on the Khmer Rouge trials please.

  • 5.
  • At 05:15 PM on 19 Dec 2007,
  • Bedd Gelert wrote:

Who is Mark Ronson ? Any relation to Jon Ronson ?

How about Clegg's path to emerging as Mr Certainty: "Clone of Blair"? Blair was bad boy at school, then Jagger wannabe, then great barrister wannabe, then saw that politics needs no skills just cunning. There he reaped the power and adulation he craved. What was the Clegg route? Is he just as needy - and dangerous?

  • 7.
  • At 06:58 PM on 19 Dec 2007,
  • John wrote:

My apologies. I've read my post and seenthat I've asked for "something", which is quite stupid.

The trials obviously have not begun yet, but it would be interesting if you could examine why it took so long to get them off the ground and why this should compare with the Balkans.

Basically, why is international justice such a lottery?

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