Starbucks boss: speculators are cashing in on high food prices
The largest buyer of coffee in the world is basically accusing the City and Wall Street of orchestrating price rises of food for their own benefit.
Faisal Islam
Faisal Islam has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his blogs.
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The Great Stagnation is here
Economics Editor Faisal Islam on why anaemic growth may be the way of the future for the UK economy.
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Will the bankers hand back their ill-gotten PPI bonuses?
What marks this out as the biggest misselling scandal in British history is for me ths scale of the profitability for the Banks
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The coming fiscal punchup between Scotland and the UK Treasury
Faisal Islam on the upcoming fiscal punch-up as the SNP wins the Scottish elections.
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Flattening out the GDP debate
My report yesterday on the GDP figures and Krishnan’s rather robust interview of the Chief Secretary of the Treasury has elicited some viewer feedback, and not just about my hard hat. Some correspondents felt we were talking down the economy by “arbitrarily” looking at the flat economy since the end of September, rather than 0.5 per cent growth in Q1 of this year.
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Pulling the snow over our eyes?
Can the economy’s slow growth really be blamed on the harsh winter weather? Economics Editor Faisal Islam looks behind the headlines?
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Small businesses still suffering ongoing credit squeeze
Can the economy recover when small businesses still face rising finance costs? (If they can get credit at all) Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
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The economic argument for PFI has never been worse
Faisal ponders why, with the change in borrowing costs, the number of PFI projects reaching financial completion in 2011 has risen.
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US credit warning ‘an economic sinking of the Lusitania’
The US credit ratings agency has put the American government’s gold standard AAA credit rating in the relegation zone. It is officially on a negative outlook, which according to S&P means there is at least a one-in-three chance that the US could lose its triple A status.
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How Sheffield’s teens will pay 50 pounds for place on Cameron’s volunteer scheme
It is quite extraordinary that many of the 16-year-olds targeted by David Cameron’s National Citizen Service scheme will have £50 or £100 to spare in order to pay for work experience, blogs Faisal Islam.
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More woe for job-hunting 16-24 year olds
Faisal Islam visits the Longbridge plant where ground breaking new manufacturing techniques have reinvigorated the famous car factory, but even this has only created one job for a 16-24 year old age bracket on a day that unemployment dropped overall but rose yet again for the UK youth sector.
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Inflation falls but consumers still feel financial pain
As inflation falls Channel 4 News’ Economics Editor Faisal Islam says it is far too soon to be celebrating.
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Banking report: is it a game-changer?
Is the independent report on banking “transformative”? Economics Editor Faisal Islam is not convinced.
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Portgual bail-out: eurozone tectonic stress rises
Our Economics Editor Faisal Islam on the impact on the wider Eurozone of Portugal’s request for a bail-out.
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Osborne: Portugal bailout shows cuts are needed
As Portugal becomes the latest EU country to ask for a bailout, George Osborne says the Government’s austerity measures are needed to prevent a similar crisis in the UK. Faisal Islam takes a look.
