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		<title>Inflation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a while since I wrote here. Happy New Year.
Today I am thinking about inflation.
2010 is upon us and the new VAT rate has hit the UK - at around 2.5% more than the previous one.
Companies have spent a horrible year firing people and tidying up their finances, with business being difficult.
If I get the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2010/01/08/inflation-2/</link>
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		<title>Fractional Ownership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was at the OPP Live expo in London Excel - one of the UK's largest (if not the largest) event for overseas property professionals.
A striking finding was the presence of many Fractional Ownership developers and advisers in an event like this.
Not only were there new entrants to the Fractional market, but more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/11/01/fractional-ownership/</link>
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		<title>A new start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rarely post personal developments in this blog, but thought i'd say...
A new start for me from Friday as I will be leaving my employer after 4.5 years of service.
It's been a pleasure working here and I will miss the people I worked with and the people I met.
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		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/10/08/a-new-start/</link>
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		<title>Benefits system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simon Heffer has a column in today's Telegraph discussing the flaws of the UK benefits system.
It raises some important questions. Unfortunately, it also tries to sell a certain political party in the process, which devalues the issue discussed to just mere politics.
But here's one:
The report [on reform of the benefits system, published today by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/09/16/benefits-system/</link>
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		<title>Public spending in graphics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is quite possibly the best illustration of how tax money is being spent. I wonder if they have considered putting it up somewhere in Downing Street so they can see where there is some fat.
Interestingly this government spends more on "TV Licenses for over 75s" than for "Promoting Business".
It also spends more on housing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/09/16/public-spending-in-graphics/</link>
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		<title>Britain is sleepwalking towards a decade of economic misery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just found this very interesting critique on the well publicised "economic recovery".
In fact, I have been wondering about the recent turn of the market and how it may move from September for some time. Throughout Europe and the US, stock markets are up, consumer confidence is up, and property prices are turning. Most analysts are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/08/26/britain-is-sleepwalking-towards-a-decade-of-economic-misery/</link>
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		<title>House Prices (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I posted a graph of UK house prices, commenting that something seemed to be changing in the UK housing market.
More recent figures, such as this graph, show that indeed something is changing. The question now is if this will be sustainable.

A lot will depend I think on GDP and unemployment figures in weeks and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/07/30/house-prices-2/</link>
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		<title>The BBC Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been following the BBC Box for some time now and thought I'd post about it here.
Apparently, the BBC has painted a container with its branding and fitted it with a GPS tracker, mapping its route over an entire year and talking about global trade.
This started at a time when global trade was booming and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/07/29/the-bbc-box/</link>
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		<title>Pay back time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's funny how when people were borrowing endlessly, nobody was worried. Mortgage equity withdrawal has been increasing for years before the bubble burst. Few analysts were worried about this - it was a new era when money would be forever cheap and plenty.
Now, customers don't like the idea of paying 7% interest when the Bank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/07/03/pay-back-time/</link>
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		<title>Inflation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago I was writing about deflation hitting the UK economy.
Well, I may have been too quick. More recent reports and the markets seem to now expect inflation - and I mean serious inflation.
A businessman I was discussing with yesterday was worried. He noted that all governments had printed money too fast to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ioannisverdelis.com/2009/06/11/inflation/</link>
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