The next credit crisis will hit consumers, not banks
Packman looks at the findings that the boom before the bust was caused by growth in the consumer credit market, and asks what happens when it inevitably fails.
Green Politics
Britain is the sick man of the G7 – and no-one’s to blame but ourselves
Will Straw details the news that Britain is the ‘sick man’ of the G7, and asks why that is.
Stay poor with Holiday Inn at the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Darren Johnson AM reveals the failure of the mayor to live up to his promise to ensure that Holiday Inn pay the London Living Wage as an Olympic sponsor.
If RBS’s board is not held to account, it could become a new Leyland
To avoid disaster, RBS’s global markets division – the failing part of RBS – should be closed so the state can focus on its investment elsewhere.
Businesses in a funk: The real reason GDP fell in Q4 2011
GDP contracted because businesses went into a funk, cut their spending and hoarded cash instead, writes IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin.
Workfare versus compulsory work: When is it right and wrong to mandate labour?
Richard Exell looks at the tricky issues dividing workfare (bad) from mandating paid work (good). Is there a line that can be drawn?
It isn’t “anti-business” to oppose high pay for mediocrity
One Society’s Larissa Hansford argues that businesspeople don’t know the first thing about what is and isn’t “anti-business”.
New record high for NEETs in 2011 – but why?
IPPR’s Richard Darlington looks at why there’s been such a rocket in the number of NEETs in 2011. Is it EMA? Is it the Future Jobs Fund? Is it just the Tories?
Rewards for failure continue at the top of industry
Alex Hern examines the common link between the appalling bad RBS quarter, and the appallingly good Centrica one: Rewards for failure.
Metering can reduce water use, so why is the government not backing it?
Natan Doron examines how, and why, we should reduce water use in Britain, and asks what the government is doing about it.