Labour’s Spending Review starts to pick through the clutter
Emran Mian of the Social Market Foundation looks at the principles that will guide Labour’s spending decisions.
George Osborne
Britain’s trade deficit persists in spite of sterling devaluation
Quantitative easing and ‘loose’ monetary policy have not been successful in boosting UK export performance.
Scrapping housing benefit for under 25s will only feed youth homelessness
It is unlikely that scrapping housing benefit for under-25s will mean that claimants will go back to living with parents.
The SNP are wrong on currency union
Whilst I’m no fan of the chancellor, what he will say tomorrow will be a perfectly rationale defence of the interests of the rest of the UK if Scotland voted for independence.
The other British economy: low productivity and no manufacturing strategy
There was plenty of data out this week suggesting a bleaker economic picture than that painted by the government and the media.
Consumer debt, another house price boom – what sort of recovery is this?
The chancellor has given up on any rebalancing of the economy and has fallen back on what can only lead, further down the line, to another crash.
50p tax rate: play the world’s smallest violin for the rich
I won’t be playing the world’s smallest violin for those affected by the proposed 50p tax rate, and neither should you.
Why Larry Summers was right to give Osborne’s economic policy a kicking
We should welcome Larry Summers showing how incoherent this chancellor’s economic policy really is.
Miliband’s been quicker to notice the effectiveness of competition policy on better banking
Ed Miliband’s speech shows that politicians of all stripes have had damascene conversions on their attitudes to the banking sector.
Competitor banks are needed to shake up the system
Competitor banks to shake up the system should primarily have community interests as its focus. What Miliband is signalling at today is a good first move.