New Labour Market and Incme inequality stats: Social trends from the ONS (April-May 2009)

The state of the economy under Labour (12 slides)

More banks may have to be nationalised, says IMF

Credit ratings Q&A: why they matter

Britain's prized AAA rating under threat as S&P issues stark warning

Germany economy facing worst post-war recession

Inflation falls to 2.3% as food and energy costs drop

Japan suffers record fall in GDP

Sterling jumps to a new high for the year

1948: the year inflation was this low

Recession: fruit and vegetable sales fall but frozen pizza benefits

CBI to attack Gordon Brown for 'economic vandalism'

Hopes of US housing recovery crushed

Gold: demand soars amid inflation fears

British economy falls even deeper into deflation

'The recession will be over by Christmas,' claims Darling as IMF set to unveil grim economic forecast in blow to Chancellor

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