"Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust."

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Source: Speech at the University of Manchester Science and Technology Institute, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2001.

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