Darling calls for investigation into QE’s effects, before its expansion
Quantitative Easing: What on earth has happened to the £200bn?
Faisal Islam
Faisal Islam has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his blogs.
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Spending review: a pot pourri of stealth cuts?
It is rather difficult to escape the notion that in an almost crazed desire to be seen as “fair”, the Coalition has made a bit of a dog’s dinner of the spending review.
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A ‘regressive’ review that will impact well beyond benefits and state workers
Faisal Islam blogs on today’s Spending Review and finds it a “perfectly regressive review”.
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Leaked Whitehall memo on job cuts: ‘The front line will bear the brunt’
Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that 14,000 jobs are to go at the Ministry of Justice – 11,000 of them from the frontline, according to a leaked internal memo.
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Ministry of Justice to axe 14,000 jobs
Spending review: “Frontline will bear the brunt” says leaked Ministry of Justice memo announcing 14,000 job losses, Channel 4 News exclusively learns.
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Spending cuts target child benefits, tax credits and social housing
Faisal Islam blogs on how the government’s spending cuts will hit child benefits, tax credits and social housing hard.
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Social housing budget slashed by spending cuts
Channel 4 News has learned that the budget given to new social housing will be reduced by up to 80 per cent and child benefits for the over-16s will be cut. Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
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Rail fare increases of 30 to 40 per cent
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on how government sources are expecting some train fares to be over 30 per cent higher by 2015, and industry sources pointed towards a 40 per cent hike by 2015.
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How buy-to-let was bailed out, is back, and may be bad for Britain
The buy-to-let property market is back, thanks to the bailed out banks – but it comes at a price and there will be winners and losers, writes Economics Editor Faisal Islam.
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How buy-to-let is back
The buy-to-let property market is back, thanks to the taxpayer. But there is a backlash against it, as Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam discovers.
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‘Monster’ one month fall in house prices
What a monster of a figure. A 3.6 per cent fall in house prices in one month. That is off the scale. I was not aware that such a fall was even feasible. It has never happened before in the entire history of the landmark Halifax House Price Index, since it started in 1983.
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Two kids? Earn between £44k and £47k? Negotiate a pay cut.
In the context of today’s difficult negotiations over the Spending Review, I see today’s announcements by George Osborne as a staging post on the path towards child benefit being wrapped into the Universal Credit, writes Economics Editor Faisal Islam.
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Osborne signals an end to universal family benefits
Faisal Islam blogs from the Conservative Party Conference as Chancellor George Osborne announces an end to universal family benefits.
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Ireland’s crisis: could it happen here?
Economics Editor Faisal Islam analyses the parallels – and the differences – between the economic prospects of Ireland and the UK.
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Savings: Mr Bean was blunt, but he should be thanked
In the wake of the Bank of England comments to Channel 4 News that savers should eat into their cash, Faisal Islam blogs about the importance of the Deputy Governor’s words.
