Storm clouds are looming over Britain’s housing market
Government intervention has inflated house prices to unsustainable levels. A crash is coming – and those on lowest incomes will suffer, writes Peter Brown.
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Covid crash: How the government can avoid an economic catastrophe
The UK government is yet to publish its plan for easing the coronavirus lockdown and restarting the economy. What might it look like?
We have a choice: business as usual, or breaking with neoliberalism. Pick a side #10YearsOn
Ordinary people across the world payed the price for the financial crisis. It cannot be allowed to happen again.
A Robin Hood Tax would work. Trust me, I used to work for a hedge fund
Why is everyone still paying for the bankers’ mess – except the bankers themselves?
Banks closing branches need a dose of social responsibility
They can’t just up sticks and abandon communities
Could Brexit turn the tide on George Osborne’s austerity economics?
Shelving his surplus and ‘Brexit budget’ are a concession that hard times cuts are folly
Alec Baldwin, not Michael Douglas, will improve corporate ethics
Cormac Hollingsworth looks at the City’s idols; for all that Wall Street is known in the real world, Glengarry Glen Ross is the real star piece.
Transparency, accountability, responsibility: Miliband’s “one nation banking” principles
Ed Miliband will lay out his plans for a new era of responsibility at the top and outline his vision of “one nation banking” in a speech to Reuters today.
EU summitry is futile; this is a global financial crisis, not a eurozone crisis
Ann Pettifor explains how the current European Union summit is futile – we are in a global financial crisis, not just a crisis of the eurozone.
The human tragedies of the M5 crash
Parliament united to remember the victims of Friday’s horrific M5 crash tonight, following an emergency statement by new transport secretary Justine Greening.