http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/treasury-matters/investment/spend-or-invest-that-is-the-question7907/ Financial insight from industry thought leader Joergen Jensen Wed, 23 May 2012 08:51:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/treasury-matters/investment/spend-or-invest-that-is-the-question7907/#comment-321 Weekend reading for investors: 28/02/09 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:23:54 +0000 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/treasury-matters/?p=20#comment-321 [...] agree with this short post from Joergen Jensen that governments would be better investing rather than spending their way out of the [...] [...] agree with this short post from Joergen Jensen that governments would be better investing rather than spending their way out of the [...]

]]> http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/treasury-matters/investment/spend-or-invest-that-is-the-question7907/#comment-320 Monevator Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:28:11 +0000 http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/treasury-matters/?p=20#comment-320 Quite right. I'd much rather see unemployed but skilled car-workers and ship-builders creating a tidal wave system in the Bristol Channel or similar, rather than cheap tat from TopShop getting cheaper by 2.5% for a few months. Even if the Net-Net was roughly the same, the former would give the country something to aspire and rally around and feel good about - a unquantifiable feel good factor contribution. Quite right. I’d much rather see unemployed but skilled car-workers and ship-builders creating a tidal wave system in the Bristol Channel or similar, rather than cheap tat from TopShop getting cheaper by 2.5% for a few months. Even if the Net-Net was roughly the same, the former would give the country something to aspire and rally around and feel good about - a unquantifiable feel good factor contribution.

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