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The British minister George Osborne said the discussions in Paris had brought the euro zone reforms a step closer.

George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.

George Osborne grew up in the same street as me in London.

If I had to make a case for Osborne's approach I would invoke what used to be called the "balanced Budget multiplier" .

The British sense of "fair play" would not tolerate people opting for welfare as a "lifestyle choice" , Mr Osborne said.

Doctor Osborne examined Bedell, then shook his head. There was little hope, he said, unless proper medicine could be found.

He said the top rate should be "got rid of" but stressed the timing was up to Osborne.

Mr Osborne's pathetic attempt to cast the cuts' distributional impact in a progressive light was no more believable than it was in June.

It would not be a threat to Mr Osborne's main fiscal target or to the bond markets' good faith.

George Osborne, the chancellor, said the current turmoil showed that Britain's approach was the right one.

About these expenses old Osborne had never given himself any trouble to think, not any other relation of Amelia, nor Amelia herself.

Mr Osborne talked grimly of the injustice of burdening future generations with debt, and said he would bring Britain "back from the brink" .

Had Osborne joined the staff, he might have settled back into an easy existence and never left.

That would be handy for Mr Osborne if he needs to raise more tax without too much of a fuss.

However, politically, Mr Osborne has pulled off the CSR as well as he could have hoped.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne said the real test of the measure would be whether lending was resumed.

Mr Osborne was brave to put numbers to his levy, given that Britain is the first financially significant country to put a bank tax in place.

If out of the ashes of Labour, Mr Osborne creates a self-reliant nation freed from benefit addiction, yesterday's pain will not be in vain.

YESTERDAY, we learned that British Chancellor George Osborne has a harder task ahead of him than he'd been envisioning.

Even the finance minister, George Osborne, has no education in economics beyond whatever he picked up studying history at Oxford.

The Osborne plan is to give bank supervision back to the Bank of England and to add oversight of insurance firms.

Britain was right to shun the euro, Mr Osborne said, but "I told you so" does not "amount to an economic policy" .

George Osborne said in Washington: "No one here has put forward a plan for that; Greece has got a programme and needs to implement it. "

Mr Osborne may have been the most relieved because he made no gaffes and stood his ground under attack.

George Osborne, the chancellor, had tied his hands for this Budget by committing to austerity measures.

Mr Osborne, an astute politician, had long grasped this point and duly administered some very astringent medicine.

The children's minister, Tim Loughton, claimed the measure might need revising just hours after Osborne had unveiled it.

Next week George Osborne, the chancellor, will set out a comprehensive plan to tackle the UK's deficit in an emergency Budget.

Most government departments will shrink by a quarter, though Mr Osborne excluded the National Health Service from his savagery.

Mr Osborne is hoping that markets and business will reward him for his discipline.

Osborne isn't Jewish, and I can see it might be odd to have a false ethnic flag pinned to your back.

"It's just back and forth to area hospitals, " Osborne said. "It's really just an incredible sight to see. "

Mr Osborne's own measures were regressive, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think-tank.

David Cameron, the British prime minister, and George Osborne, his finance minister, will also be there.

Cameron and Osborne will publish their plans to overhaul bank regulation in London today.

Mr Osborne said the figures meant "we are on the right track" , though there was "still a long way to go" .

All that changed with George Osborne's speech to the Conservative Party this week.

Committed as he is to austerity, in his budget Mr Osborne is likelier to reform taxes than to cut them.

Mr Osborne's basic message on growth, however, was that he wants to make Britain a better place to do business.

This leaves Mr Osborne in an uncomfortable position as he prepares his autumn statement.

Mr Osborne's desire to make savings from the welfare budget is not quite the same thing as this kind of welfare reform.

The ruling, endorsed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, is likely to have profound consequences for banks both in the UK and overseas.

Mr Osborne's budget was a drastic statement of the executive power of government: the coalition's imperial moment.

Osborne said it was essential for the plan agreed at last week's Brussels summit to be implemented, "including in Greece" .

We do not see any necessity on meeting them again now and discussions with them have been wrapped up, Osborne said.

Osborne is a doctor by name only, but he stays in the stock exchange all day long.

The amicable nature of the talks was emphasised when the Chinese delegation lavished praise on Mr Osborne's fiscal austerity programme.

More than once, Mr Osborne had to break off his speech whilst John Bercow, the Speaker, shushed shouting MPs.

If Mr Osborne's party wins the next election, at the latest next June, then his plan is likely to become reality.

The next of these occasions comes on March 23rd, when George Osborne delivers his second budget.

George Osborne, the government's axe-wielder-in-chief (see article), appeared to be a lucky chancellor.

On balance, Mr Osborne is still right that the economic risks of not decisively tackling the deficit outweigh the risk of doing so.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), set up by Mr Osborne to provide independent economic projections, laid out the grim numbers.

The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has also been asked to provide copies of his mortgage interest statements.

In an interview on Britain's Sky News Saturday, British Chancellor George Osborne offered a stark assessment of the challenge.

After a few days in office, George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, announced cuts to take effect in 2010-11.

In fairness to Mr Osborne, he is one of those who favours treating large banks and small ones differently.

Upon those days when he visited the Osborne house, he seldom had the advantage of meeting his old friend.

Mr Osborne could choose to annul all his predecessor's tax changes, including those already implemented this year, and replace them.

One of the most widely accepted creative processes is the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process (CPS).

MPs passed a motion calling on George Osborne, the chancellor, to scrap plans to put up fuel duty in January in line with inflation.

With the big-picture stuff in place, Mr Osborne could administer a few small balms to the economy's sorest spots (see table).

Still, other analysts, like Shaun Osborne at TD Securities, said it may be too soon to assume the worst is over for the single currency.

It was George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, who bore the burden of substantively rejecting the case for fiscal loosening.

Osborne was sensible, candid, frank; sincere and affectionate to his friends; but, in literary matters, too fond of criticism.

George Osborne laid out his budget plan to Parliament.

Mr Osborne also adduces proposed reforms to health care and schools which, he claims, would both improve provision and save cash.

The longest case of hiccups ever recorded was with a man named Charles Osborne whose fit lasted 68 years.

"As you please, " Dobbin said. "You must be my bottleholder, Osborne. "

George Osborne, the chancellor, said that "a great deal of detailed work" would be needed before the proposals became law.

Mr Osborne should set out a strategy for taxes to complement last autumn's bold public-spending plans.

Either way, George Osborne, the chancellor in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, this week totted up the bills.

Mr Osborne's arguments against it were compelling, with or without the threat of a British veto.

Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne have, however, persisted in at least one fallacy.

He and his Treasury spokesman, George Osborne, made a point of resisting right-wing pressure to promise an overall cut in taxation.

As well as Cameron, foreign secretary William Hague, home secretary Theresa May and chancellor George Osborne are all Oxford graduates.

Mr Osborne's main fiscal target allows for the impact of these "automatic stabilisers" .

He had enraged Mr Cameron and George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, by grumbling publicly about budget cuts for the armed forces.

Insiders say Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron are bound by a pact of loyalty and friendship that no sensible minister would try to prise apart.

The word "savings" , by contrast, which is Mr Osborne's preferred euphemism for cuts, features prominently in the middle.

The British Chancellor George Osborne says he's delighted at Christine Lagarde's appointment.

Mr Osborne's statement, which was mainly a list of numbers, did not provide much idea of the detailed implications.

Mr Osborne is drawing up a package of growth-related reforms to be published in the autumn.

But you don't have to be Ozzie Osborne -- you don't have to be super-outrageous to do this.

After all, careful explanations from Mr Osborne convinced most Tories that Ireland's collapse was not in British interests.

Thus George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, drew the narrow parameters of his second budget on March 23rd.

Long before John Osborne wrote Look Back in Anger in 1956, young men were angered by being constrained by their class and education.

George Osborne, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, did on Tuesday what his predecessors have been doing for centuries.

For Mr Osborne himself, the budget has been a mixed blessing.

Mr Osborne, it seems, wants Britain to be like Germany, the rich world's economic powerhouse (see article).

Mr Osborne, it seems, wants Britain to be like Germany, the rich world's economic powerhouse (see article).

Knowing that she must get help or he would die, she went to her long-time friend and family doctor. Graham Osborne.

Mr Osborne believes that Britain's reputation for fiscal prudence depends on cutting public spending aggressively.

Mr Osborne made no apologies, and said his budget "unashamedly backs business" .

Mr Osborne obliged with a new levy on banks' borrowings, the gory details of which may be unveiled in his first budget on June 22nd.

Mr Osborne's colleagues have been making scary speeches about the parlous state of public finances.

Mr Cameron sticks up for Mr Osborne's performance during the financial crisis, inviting opponents to "push as hard as [they] can" .

It is also a political problem for Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne: austerity, as it begins to bite, will not upset left-leaning voters alone.

David Cameron and George Osborne insist they enjoy a more cordial alliance than some previous occupants of Downing Street.

George Osborne said in Washington: "No one here has put forward a plan forthat; Greece has got a programme and needs to implement it. "

Of course, installing the green features complicated the building process, Mr. Osborne said.

But, when it comes to the public finances, Mr Osborne is a sober fiscal hawk rather than a gung-ho Reaganite tax-cutter.

Against that background, Mr Osborne is right to guard the UK's triple A status, keeping borrowing costs down.

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Mr Osborne could have softened the effect of a future interest-rate hike by loosening fiscal policy a jot.

Mr Osborne's elusiveness would matter less, were the gap between his public profile and his influence smaller.

George Osborne, UK chancellor of the exchequer, said changes to the Greek bail-out programme were "inevitable" .

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Mr Osborne said people would be "impressed" by the package he has now agreed with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.

One senior figure predicts that Mr Osborne will struggle to meet his borrowing targets, amid what may well be sluggish global growth.

As usual, Miss Osborne, owing to her moderate salary, was for securing a home engagement.

Lord Lamont says Mr Osborne is in an unusual position of strength.

Britain will grow, Mr Osborne reckons, if the state steps back: businesses will invest, exports expand, employment take off.

Mr Osborne is eager to use technology to increase access to government data and to reduce the cost of paperwork.

It is enough to make one suspect that Mr Osborne actually enjoys inflicting pain.

George Osborne, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, this week pledged to implement the ICB's recommendations in full.

Mistakenly, Mr Osborne has pledged to scrap the FSA and transfer its role to a complacent Bank of England.

Mr Osborne says an incoming Tory government would ask competition authorities to investigate this concentration.

But that would be a hard sell politically, and Mr Osborne, for one, ruled it out last year.

As it is, Messrs Osborne and Fox have encouraged the armed forces chiefs to join the public fray.

George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, has even talked about the "remorseless logic" of tighter integration.

Mr Osborne hasn't shied away from his deficit reduction goals.

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Mr Osborne was correct in his determination to tackle the deficit quickly. The notion that he has caused the coming recession is nonsense.

Even Mr Osborne, so loud in his demand that something must be done, is reluctant to confront the issues raised by Lord Turner.

A: As soon as he gets his company, I believe the affair is settled. George Osborne is a capital fellow.

Mr Osborne has bravely seized the opportunity, but he needs to go much further than just child benefit.

Chancellor George Osborne will outline the scale of total cuts to come in an emergency budget on June 22.

Osborne got swept up into the Tory leadership contest, as a supporter of William Hague.

But there are bigger difficulties. Can Mr Osborne deliver the savings he promises? If he does, will the economy stumble?

Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne would adjudicate, pronouncing "you're cut! " instead of "you're fired! " .

In the meantime we carry on a substantial evidence research through the Osborne computer enterprise using the theory this paper.

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Why had Osborne junked the name, Gideon, in favour of George?

Lord Lawson suggests that political self-interest should keep Mr Osborne from short-term concessions that damage the economy.

And on foreign policy, Mr Cameron would get an easier ride at a trendy London dinner party than hawkish Mr Osborne.

Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his first Budget of the new coalition government - outlining plans to ''balance the books' by 2016.

From next April, Mr Osborne announced, the CPI will be used to uprate benefits, tax credits and public-sector pensions.

Some voters will welcome the prospect of avoiding a higher tax, but others may see a muddled message from Mr Osborne.

George Osborne's first budget was predictably brutal but few could have anticipated just how cruel.

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Nevertheless, the measures Mr Osborne described will result in almost half a million jobs being cut from the state payroll.

This is based in part on Mr Osborne's understanding that Mr Cameron is an electoral asset in a way that he is not.

"It was totally hit and miss, " says Rosemary Osborne of Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Away from the diplomatic setting of Wang-Osborne, Chinese officials were more forthright.

Fiscal fundamentalists BY MOST people's standards, George Osborne, Britain's 39-year-old chancellor of the exchequer, is a fiscal hawk.

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Mr Osborne stressed that, along with the government's mantra of "fairness" , reform was a guiding principle of the review.

Mr Osborne also wants to police banks better, hence his plans to rejig their regulators' responsibilities.

On taxes, Mr Osborne had much to announce for individuals and firms.

Mr Osborne, who understands the political value of being seen at the vanguard of ideas, gave the opening remarks at the launch.

Now, the food security of the Lower Mekong Basin hangs in the balance, writes Milton Osborne .

Even so, Mr Osborne will have to raise taxes as well as cut spending.

Mr Osborne has often seemed too confident that private-sector spending will fill the gap in demand left by fiscal austerity .

Ed Miliband, its new leader, said this week that Mr Osborne's plan was "extremely damaging" and "dangerous for our economy" .

Mr Osborne plans to consult during the summer before the tax is set in stone, giving banks plenty of time to lobby for changes.

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, is a favourite target.

Unmoved by the industry's howls of protest, Mr Osborne maintains that the extra taxes will not have much effect on production.

Perhaps unavoidably, Messrs Cameron and Osborne have struggled to translate their warnings about debt into pocketbook language.

If the committee does recommend breaking up banks it will put Mr Osborne in a tricky position.

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The UK economy will grow more slowly this year than previously forecast, the Chancellor George Osborne has said.

Osborne added that European leaders need to implement a coordinated effort to save the euro currency.

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The Conservatives' George Osborne must be right.

The system of regulation had completely failed, Osborne said.

Both Mr Osborne and Mr Duncan Smith may end up feeling aggrieved over the final outcome.

Mr Osborne was correct in his determination to tackle the deficit quickly.

Mr Osborne, for his part, is under pressure as chancellor to show that he has a recipe for restoring growth (see Economics Focus).

It leaked, riling Mr Cameron and George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer.

Going to Miss Osborne's that afternoon, she found that little lady packing and singing.

Osborne says the Red Cross has workers from North Carolina in the south, all the way north past New York.

Mr Osborne has said that he would hold an emergency budget soon after the election.

The question most often asked is whether Mr Osborne's gamble with austerity will pay off .

I guess that could have been part of Osborne's motives?

"The temptation to be political will be great. And George Osborne is very political, " he says.

As many economists back Mr Osborne as worry that his brutal assault on public spending will wreck recovery.

Mr Osborne and most businessmen denounce it as a "tax on jobs" .

But the main snag in negotiations with Mr Osborne's Treasury has been the extra money these reforms would cost.

Mr Brown's move was a shock, whereas Mr Osborne's had long been trailed.

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The most recent -ism advanced by Mr Osborne and others is "progressive conservatism" .

Mr Osborne is funnelling some money into science and apprenticeships.

Mr Osborne has insisted that only projects that offer a good economic return will be supported.

Mr Osborne is ambitious but knows that any opportunity to lead his party or country is years away.

But, whatever the reasons, growth is more sluggish, and unemployment higher, than Mr Osborne expected.

The spending review raised three big and related questions. First, do Mr Osborne's sums add up?

The risk in this, as the governor acknowledged in his latest letter to Mr Osborne, is that people start to expect higher inflation.

This is one of those heavy tomes that its publisher, Osborne, is fond of (720 pages).

Mr Osborne's budget puts Britain on the path to fiscal redemption, but that path is a hard one.

But as the Tories' poll lead has shrunk, Mr Osborne has changed tack.

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That must worry George Osborne, the austerity chancellor.

"Global oil demand has recovered its pre-recession peak, " Mr Osborne says.

But Chancellor George Osborne said his plans to aid recovery were "on track" .

Mr Osborne will present an emergency budget on June 22nd, then a departmental spending review this autumn.

So Mr Osborne has not got things completely right.

Mr Osborne himself reputedly pushed for Mr Clarke's appointment.

Mr Osborne has made populist pledges to cut stamp duty for first-time home-buyers and to exempt more people from inheritance tax.

Mr Osborne's plan, first unveiled in June 2010, has helped distance Britain from fiscal troubles in the euro zone.

Aware of petrol's political potency, in March Mr Osborne cut duty by a penny per litre and delayed a further 3p of rises.

Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer and made money, but died young.

Mr Osborne has several choices in raising these revenues.

In any case Mr Osborne vastly exaggerates the effect of the UK Budget deficit on long term rates.

Mr Osborne's new budget makes no bones about the likely near-term trajectory for growth.

"Bonuses for these staff will be at best 50 per cent, down to being paid nothing or being fired, " Mr Osborne said.

"There's not a finer fellow in the service, " Osborne said.

The second is the spending review on October 20th, when Mr Osborne will reveal where the axe will fall.

George Osborne spoke out against 'people who think it is a lifestyle to sit on out-of-work benefits'.

The consequences for Mr Osborne's fiscal plans are profound.

In his budget Mr Osborne set his sights far lower.

The single gravest error in this budget, and it is one that Mr Osborne will come to rue, was ring-fencing health.

George Osborne may well decide that he prefers a bird in hand to two in the bush.

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To date, Mr Osborne has used his political skills to good effect.

As Mr Osborne put it, how can Britain "earn its way in the modern world" ?

Osborne pressed home his advantage.

But that is based on a central projection from the OBR and Mr Osborne may want to build in a safety margin of up to 1% of GDP.

Emotionally, it is said, Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne would prefer a looser union based on free trade.

The second question is whether the economy can take Mr Osborne's strong medicine if he can, in fact, administer it.

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"We will track them, and hopefully get some hard data that people can use, " Mr. Osborne said.

Fitting into this came another appeal from Miss Osborne, more urgent than ever.

Here the new government's main exhibit is the budget presented by Mr Osborne on June 22nd.

Mr Osborne also does much of the government's political thinking.

Mr Osborne predicted in March that the government's fiscal position would be modestly in surplus in 2014-15.

George Osborne unveiled his budget to the House of Commons.

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, wants to curb the remuneration of public-sector "fat cats" such as quango bosses.

This week Mr Osborne announced some measures designed to make the squeeze look fairer, such as a new crackdown on tax evasion.

For both those reasons, Mr Osborne is right.

The economy has been stagnating under the weight of Mr Osborne's fiscal austerity.

Mr Osborne should rectify that.

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The portable computer was born 30 years ago this weekend, when Adam Osborne unveiled the Osborne 1 in San Francisco.

Osborne did fine in the interview.

Mr Osborne's task was to show how the government will make them.

But what of Mr Osborne's competence?

When we next met, Ralph discovered the trick we had played, and Osborne was laughed at.

Mr Osborne's budget is nonetheless a big step in the right direction.

First, do Mr Osborne's sums add up?

It is a sense difficult to argue with Mr Osborne.

He added: "George Osborne, if he wants a plan B should listen to wiser advice than that. "

"MR OSBORNE. . . has embarked on a half-baked plan of destruction, " thundered a London banker in a letter to the Financial Times.

That is a much graver worry for Mr Osborne than when precisely he should get the budgetary squeeze under way.

The Office of Tax Simplification, a body set up by Mr Osborne last year, has identified 47 tax reliefs that could be easily abolished.

But Mr Osborne is more liberal on moral issues such as abortion and gay rights than on law and order.