It is easy to produce banker bashing sound bites in bonus season. But as Ed Miliband recently showed, it is rather harder to stop rhetorical flushes damaging the value of our unintentional investment in RBS and Lloyds.
I won’t be playing the world’s smallest violin for those affected by the proposed 50p tax rate, and neither should you.
We should welcome Larry Summers showing how incoherent this chancellor’s economic policy really is.
The transparent attempt by the government to selectively reinterpret the data so as to downplay the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ is frankly rather alarming.
Unless we see a pick-up in productivity growth soon then the UK risks much slower growth, and lower living standards, in the future.
Any move now to increase interest rates might put the economic recovery at risk.
Anyone taking a closer look at the figures can see that one measure of inflation has gone down, while the other has gone up.
Strikes, work-related illnesses and staff turnover are more common in organisations with bigger gaps between the highest and lowest earners.
Mainstream banking facilities have all but disappeared from low income areas. The Bank of Salford offers an alternative model.
Stoking up anti-EU sentiment may be popular with the right-wing press, but it creates uncertainty around jobs and investment.
