Economic update – September 2011
IPPR’s senior economist Tony Dolphin looks at the key economic indicators and reviews the state of the economy in his latest economic update for Left Foot Forward.
Green Politics
IFS questions Osborne’s “short sighted” failure to invest in science and skills
The Institute for Fiscal Studies today urged the government to invest rapidly in skills and science, to avoid falling further behind rising economies like China.
This is the slowest recovery since the Great Depression
New analysis shows the economy’s struggle to get back to its previous peak, which took place in Q1 2008, will take longer even that the Great Depression.
IMF boss repeats call for Plan B
The IMF’s boss has given her strongest warning yet that Britain should slow the pace of its spending cuts. She called for countries “to adjust their austerity programmes”.
Government inaction on green economy is holding us back
Investment in our green economy would get Britain growing and cut the deficit, but government inaction is holding us back, writes shadow minister Luciana Berger.
Head bond vigilante brands Osborne’s strategy economic “suicide”
Gidoen Osborne’s economic strategy has been savaged by the head bond vigilante Bill Gross, branding it “suicide”, reports Left Foot Forward’s Cormac Hollingsworth.
The challenges for Labour in developing a credible banking regulation policy
Matthew Pitt on the debate on Plan B and banking regulation, and looks at what Labour needs to do next – plus a look at plans for a British Investment Bank.
Debunking the banking lobby’s scare tactics
The complete separation of retail and investment banking is an urgent prerequisite for future sustainable growth, not a reason to delay it, writes Compass’s Joe Cox.
Time to get our PFI tax back
Email your MP today and ask them to write to the Treasury to change their minds and act on PFI tax avoidance, says Stella Creasy MP.
Ed Milliband’s call for global action to kickstart economy backed up by IMF
Ed Miliband’s call for an emergency G20 summit in September is backed up by an important year-long project undertaken by the IMF, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.