Web links for 5th January 2011

05 Jan 2011, by ToUChstone blog in Web links

• Smaller businesses do not share optimism
  The FT reports that a survey shows that leaders of large businesses are optimistic about their firms' proopects and support the austerity strategy. But another survey, of mainly medium-sized companies, found "business confidence slipping for the first time in 18 months."
• The Government’s Growth Plan: Higher Unemployment « Duncan’s Economic Blog
• Introducing the "fib list"
  Richard Watts on the justifications the government gives for cuts.