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City week

Title
City week
Genre
News report; Interview; Consumer advice
TX Date
Unknown
Year of production
1979
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Duration
00:09:03
Description
City Week, presented by Douglas Moffitt. Part 1 of 2. Includes update on the gold and share prices and the pay dispute at the heart of the engineering strike. Report on IMF and World Bank conference by Alex Murray of Financial Weekly. Sid Weighell of the RMT union interviewed as the union says it will not fund the Labour Party until the conclusion of an inquiry into its financial structure. Also interview with Nick Morris, Institute for Fiscal Studies, criticising the Government’s new tax and prices index which affects income tax cuts. Studio Engineer Tony Circum(?).
Contributors
Sidney Weighell; Nick Morris; Douglas Moffitt; Alex Murray; Tony Circum(?)
Keywords
Strikes; Inflation; Taxation; Economics; Fiscal policy; Finance; Engineering; National budgets; Income tax; Financial policy; Share dealing; International monetary systems; Financial markets; Gold trade; Monetary gold; Postindustrial societies

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