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Simon Youel

Website Simon Youel works on media and policy at Positive Money

Revealed: How Help to Buy has stuffed the pockets of housing giants

Simon Youel
19 June, 2019

This was a policy designed to keep house prices high – not help people get on the ladder.

As RBS reports double profits, the public is right to oppose a sell off

Simon Youel
15 February, 2019

Only a fraction of the British public support the governments plan to flog RBS by any means necessary

Labour is right to oppose selling RBS on the cheap but the party should go further

Simon Youel
7 February, 2019

If we sell our shares, taxpayer will lose over £30bn

Debt disaster: How the Budget will stuff more money into the pockets of the financial sector

Simon Youel
2 November, 2018

Why are we pumping billions into debt when there’s another way to finance public investment?

Wonga is dead but exploitative lending will only end when we solve the cost of living crisis

Simon Youel
31 August, 2018

Wonga is just one symptom of a broken economic model.

Fresh poll reveals: One in six Brits don’t trust the banks

Simon Youel
16 August, 2018

A decade after the financial crash of 2008, the majority of the British public still doesn’t trust banks. Simon Youel explains what needs to change.

Raising interest rates is the wrong answer to UK households in deficit

Simon Youel
1 August, 2018

A new report shows households have piled on debt to plug the gap between their stagnant incomes and the spiralling costs of living. How can we solve this without stalling the economy?

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