Thursday, 26 November 2009

Inequality in Britain is of developing world level

Japanese Prime Minister warns of double-dip slump

William Leith is disturbed by western consumers' trail of destruction as seen in Fred Pearce's Confessions of an Eco Sinner

Recommended: Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Long-distance calling

How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world

Householders denied steep cuts in water bills as watchdog sides with unity companies for £3 fall

Water regulator bows to lobbying on bill price cuts

New fall in business investment fuels worry

Anguish over the recession that refuses to let go

Cash for clunkers scheme under fire as car imports soar

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

The 10 worst retailers for exploiting foreign workers

Bank of England gave RBS and HBOS 'secret' £62bn loan

Why the Budget’s little brother is still growing in importance

Deflation: could it happen here?

Brown and Cameron clash over budget deficit

Gold pushed to record by demand from pessimists – and optimists

Most global banks are still unsafe, warns S&P

Britain's bank bail-out may have broken world trade rules

Japan finance minister urges BoJ to tackle deflation

IMF boss Strauss-Kahn warns that global economy remains 'highly vulnerable'

General Motors warned against state 'subsidy race'

tax on surgery angers plastic surgeons

Tesco’s petrol prices fuel debate over competition

Monday, 23 November 2009

Graphic: The changing face of business

Business confidence at six-year high, but GDP and lending figures remain weak

Rising metals end FTSE losing streak

Water bills are next in line for a big rise

How much money is enough?In 1930, Keynes predicted that by 2030, we'd be working a 15-hour week. But he underestimated our appetite for wealth

MPC in three-way split as chief economist warns on asset prices

Next Government's sentence: tax rises, spending cuts and social unrest

Government deficit now increasing at £3bn a week

A short guide to protectionism

Nestlé 'considering options' in the battle for Cadbury

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Graphic: UK inflation rises for the first time since February

Bubble trouble: have prices already risen too much, too soon?

Global stock markets rise to highest level of year

Pound tumbles after Fitch issues triple-A rating warning

Surprise jump in goods trade deficit

Interactive Guardian: CPI and RPI since 2006 - RECOMMENDED

UK inflation jumps to 1.5% from five-year low

Sainsbury's disputes report it is losing market share to rivals

UK recession is over, says MPC Andrew Sentance

High oil prices push manufacturing costs up

We will soon be Britain’s No 1 airline, boasts Ryanair

Cable & Wireless unveils demerger timetable

China attacks protectionism on eve of Obama visit

Obama trades blows with China over currency

Monday, 9 November 2009

ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet hints at end to emergency liquidity measures

China probes US carmakers over dumping claims

Inflation fears rise as input prices jump

US jobless rate surpasses 10% to hit 26-year high

Chancellor says world must keep spending

Bank bailouts will push the public debt to 160% of GDP

Furious Mandelson turns on Europe to demand more investment and innovation

US unemployment reaches highest for 26 years

Ed Miliband to unveil plans to fast-track new nuclear power stations

Bank of England says it is hard to measure QE’s success

Miserable Brits? Don’t believe it!

Outlook for jobs will remain grim ‘for several years’

Gordon Brown triggers row with call for bank supertax

Record gold price boosts FTSE

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Stephen King: China could emerge ahead of the field in this latest stress test

HSBC Global Economics: Food Fight - agricultural commodities, biofuels, income inequality - highly recommended

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UK unemployment - the jobless map of BritainWatch unemployment spread across Britain since September 2008

UK benefit claimants where you live

Visualising the collapse of the British economy

China's economic 'miracle'

REcession UK: Interactive: An interactive guide to the ups and downs in the UK GDP since 1955 (interactive)

Unemployment reaches 2.2m but pace slows

Worst of recession is past for factories

Road to recovery 'longer and harder' than we thought, says BoE

Gadgets ‘killing the planet’, warns energy watchdog

Gold: 'It's a bargain at $930 an ounce' - see the relationship with expected inflation

China's yuan 'set to usurp (overtake) US dollar' as world's reserve currency

IMF warns recovery will be slow

Europe in deepest recession since War as Germany suffers

Effective rate: -0.7% Interest rate slides on flood of cash

Government needs to realise that exports are the road to recovery

Can the world cope with billions more people?

Happy days! We still make enough stuff to trade our way out of recession

Opinion: A strong-arm policy is needed to hold the pound down on the rebound

Asia will author its own destruction if it triggers a crisis over US bonds

Thursday, 23 April 2009

Budget 2009: in numbers

Budget 2009: The key points at a glance

The state of the economy under Labour

Pound under pressure as Budget 2009 sparks UK sovereign rating fears

Budget 2009: Gordon Brown declares class war with tax on high earners

BUDGET 2009: Public sector job losses loom as Darling unveils £9 billion 'efficiency cuts'

BUDGET 2009: Embarrassment for Darling as IMF disagrees British economy will be growing again by 2010

Surprise hike in fuel duty... with years of inflation-busting rises in the pipeline

Theft jumps by a quarter and burglaries rise 4% in credit crunch crime wave

Darling pledges £3.1bn to help people back to work... but jobless total could hit 3m

Your tax at a glance

Wages fall, but only in the private sector

61p tax rate and rich perk clawback 'will force top talent to go abroad'

Fears for pubs as tax on drink is increased

Cameron condemns 'Labour's living dead' in withering attack on Darling

BUDGET 2009: Darling savaged over 'fantasy' Budget... but STILL insists good times are just round the corner

BUDGET 2009: Alistair's living in Wonderland: Darling refuses to cut spending, hits rich with 50p tax rate and pins his hopes on recovery fantasies

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Shop prices soar as pound pushes up food costs

Graphic: how dividends are changing

More companies cut payouts as slowdown hits

National debt burden borne by fewer shoulders

Production cost of North Sea oil and gas doubles

Lobby group hopes Chancellor will lift tax burden hanging over North Sea oil and gas industry

TUESDAY VIEW: Tax - Stop squeezing every last drop from our pubs

Brown may freeze the minimum wage to 'help firms save jobs'

Give us a 10% rise, demand teachers (who already want a 4-day week and seem blissfully ignorant of recession)

Surge in state handouts for credit crunch Poles pushed out of jobs and into UK benefits system

Surge in white collar applicants for seasonal jobs as Britons compete with migrants for unskilled work

The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency

Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis

Number of grown-up children returning to live with parents triples amid recession

Investors running scared from sterling

Doubt over second wave of quantitative easing

Richard Thaler: Celebrated economist wins vote of politicians

Britain must start making things again

Singapore's economy contracts 20pc in first quarter

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

German economy to contract 7pc this year

Unemployment could double to 4m, predicts David Blanchflower

Public sector workers face pay freeze as Darling is put under pressure to set an example

Millions face 'worst of both worlds' as cost of living rises but rate for fixing pay and pensions falls to zero

Britain cannot afford any more tax cuts, warns CBI

RPI deflation: 'We should be worried about this' (audio)

Data: different ways of ranking countries

There's more to life than GDPNations can be ranked in many different ways — money is just one of them

Public expects big fall in inflation

China calls for end to dollar's reign as global reserve currency

Chancellor's letter in response to Bank of England governor

Mervyn King's letter to the Chancellor explaining above target inflation

Rosé, free-range eggs, DVD rentals – what else should be in the basket of goods used to measure inflation?

Inside the UK inflation basket

Interactive: CPI and RPI since 2006

Surprise rise in inflation defies City predictions

It's time to give up our blind faith in economic growth

Monday, 16 March 2009

The world was 'very close' to financial meltdown, says Bernanke... but now the U.S. has dodged a depression

More than three-quarters of Britons want to see jobless immigrants forced to leave UK

Families across the country are £45,000 poorer as credit crunch continues to bite

Brown slaps down top doctor over plans to double cost of alcohol to curb binge- drinking

Fears of tax rises as collapse in City tax revenues puts pressure on Darling and his Budget

Fed chief defends banking bailout and predicts early recovery

Gordon Brown rejects call to set minimum prices for alcohol

Japanese economy in worst shape since Second World War

Britain showing signs of heading towards 1930s-style depression, says Bank

Jobless total passes the 2 million mark

UK expectations for inflation fall to four-year low

Gordon Brown hints at fresh tax cuts in the Budget

Friday, 6 March 2009

Dollar Drops on Concern U.S. Job Losses to Show Deepening Slump

Printing money: an easy guide to quantitative easing

Bank of England cuts interest rates and announces plans to print £150bn

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Why should printing money succeed here when it failed in Japan?

Record rise in gilts as Bank of England 'starts printing presses'

IMF chief warns of dark days

500,000 OAPs pay price of rate cuts

House prices fall another 2.3%, making them more affordable than at any time in last six years

Pictured: The credit crunch tent city which has returned to haunt America

Bank's £150bn leap in the dark: Darling orders 'printing of money' to stave off a full-scale recession

A million jobs taken by non-EU workers as official figures lay bare the scale of foreign labour

Thursday, 5 February 2009

Analysis: what's a depression and is this one?

Bank of England cuts interest rate to 1%

Record 9.6% fall in output sparks fear for Japan's future

Panasonic axes 15,000 staff on profit warning

Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park

Competition Commission kills off possible YouTube rival Kangaroo

Middle England is caught in debt trap as house prices fall and job hopes dim

Ford cuts 850 UK jobs amid 30% sales plunge

Property prices back on the up

Recession? Not for the bankers and a culture of greed that is more obscene than ever...

China outraged after India bans all toy imports

US lost a further 500,000 jobs in January

Recession: glimmers of hope?

Services data show worst of recession could be behind us

Business failures surged 78pc in January, says Experian

Further cut in interest rates 'will not help Britain climb out of recession'

Monday, 2 February 2009

Few jobs and little hope as Spain faces growing crisis

Manufacturing confidence slumps as pound slides

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao lambasts 'blind pursuit of profit' in West

'Listen to us Gordon Brown': Striking militants are driven by desperation

U.S. Consumer Spending Falls for Sixth Straight Month

Ford: We are £10bn in the red

Shell rakes in record £22bn

Thousands Of Factory Jobs Axed

Relationship With China 'Pivotal'

Wildcat Walkouts Spread Across UK

Property 'faces 25% crash'

Back to the 70s

PM furious...but strikes to go on

EU fishing policy costs us billions

Cameron calls for 'moral capitalism' in move away from Thatcher

Obama's 'buy American' rescue package runs risk of a trade war

PROTESTS OVER FOREIGN LABOUR SPREAD

RESTAURANTS DISHING UP TOO MUCH SALT

Recession to claim 300,000 more long-term jobs

Thursday, 29 January 2009

Government to print more money in £50bn bid to end lending freeze

Chinese steel mills forecast price rise

Not plane sailing for Boeing jobs

Opec pledges to push oil back above $50 a barrel

House prices fall by nearly 20% as 1.2million homeowners are trapped in negative equity

Half a million Poles to stay in Britain despite credit crunch

Almost 24 million adults with poor numeracy skills, say MPs

WEF 2009: Global crisis 'has destroyed 40pc of world wealth'

UK house prices fall further in January

COFFEE GIANT SET TO AXE 7,000 JOBS

WORKERS STRIKE OVER ECONOMIC CRISIS

CAMERON AND BROWN GO TO WAR OVER RECESSION

BRITAIN 'FACING A DEEPER RECESSION THAN ANY NATION'