economics
ECB bailing out British banks exposes coalition’s finance failure
Cormac Hollingsworth writes on the embarrassment for the chancellor that is the British banks RBS and Lloyds having to go to Europe for a bailout
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.
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.
‘What Hague had to say was absolute crap’: A masterclass in economic communication
Alex Hern presents the amazing economic communicator that is Dr Peter Morici.
The ‘markets’ aren’t the economy
Alex Hern looks at how a chance change in the make-up of the Dow Jones would lead to a 2000 point difference, and asks what this tells us about economic decision-making
Transforming the financial sector from a bad master to a good servant
Stephany Griffith-Jones presents the plan for reformation of the banking system to end the perpetual crisis of finance.