UK banking regulation is still too weak: a response to Respublica
Carl Packman examines Respublica’s new report on civic finance and the commercial potential of Community Development Finance Institutions.
Green Politics
‘All hail the rich’ – the reality behind tory tax claims
Right-wingers have been exalting the contribution of the UK’s richest 1 per cent to income tax revenue over recent months. However it’s worth looking at the detail behind these figures.
Five million workers excluded from recovery, says Living Wage Commission
Five million workers are set to be left out of the economic recovery, according to a new report published today. The report, Working for Poverty, was authored by the Living Wage Commission and states that the economic recovery will havetest
The other British economy: low productivity and no manufacturing strategy
There was plenty of data out this week suggesting a bleaker economic picture than that painted by the government and the media.
Fall in real wages longest for 50 years, says ONS
Workers have experienced the longest fall in real wages since at least 1964, new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show.
According to the IFS, people really are worse off under the Tories
Despite the sort of spin that we saw last Friday, people really are worse off under the Tories.
Invest in UK cities to stop this two-speed economy
As the UK continues to prioritise the performance of the capital city ahead of any other factor, it squanders the potential of a third of the nation.
Did we just feel the warning tremors of the next financial crash?
Last week, tremors that had been rumbling through the financial markets since the turn of the year came to the surface.
UK GDP up 0.7 per cent
UK GDP grew by 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the latest quarterly national accounts from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Consumer debt, another house price boom – what sort of recovery is this?
The chancellor has given up on any rebalancing of the economy and has fallen back on what can only lead, further down the line, to another crash.