Debt
All the signs are there for another credit crunch
the threads of forbearance and liquidity holding up the balance sheets of the private banking system are growing perilously thin, writes Ann Pettifor.
UK’s public debt is about to exceed that of the US for the first time
The USA is about to have a lower public debt than the UK, for the first time; Cormac Hollingsworth looks at why that may have happened.
How to make 2012 a real year of jubilee
Tola Ositelu argues that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee should hearken back to the original Jubilees of biblical days.
Introducing George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator
With George's Marvellous Deficit Calculator you can predict the deficit in 2012/3 from growth in 2012
What Labour needs to say about debt
George Irvin argues that Labour shouldn't have bought in to the narrative about debt, and presents the true economic position.
Conservatives to meet aid target by counting ‘made up’ debt relief as aid
David Taylor, chair of the Labour Campaign for International Development, reveals the Tories’ plan to count debt relief as real aid, arguing it’s no help at all.