The Spanish securities market commission wants an end to politicising of its activities, it says. So why, then, with the referendum two months away, is it displaying a prominent link on its homepage to a government pro-European constitution site?
Here (PDF) is a scary report which suggests that in Spain in the period 1995-2003 average annual growth in hours worked per person was 3.4% while labour productivity fell on average by 0.3%. That’s not good news with a shrinking, ageing workforce. Management planning and control is apparently the big problem, and I’m sure Proudfoot…
… used to be one of the terms used to designate a boy on apprenticeship with a shepherd. Now it sometimes refers to the (electric) fencing that, to some extent, replaced such boys.
