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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