Faisal Islam has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his blogs.
So no sooner had Britain’s banks pushed forward the begging bowl of further support schemes from authorities to prevent a renewed mortgage famine in 2011, than Mervyn King firmly slaps the suggestion down. “It is the most generous scheme in the world. It’s more than enough… in the longer-term, banking will be less profitable, but…
Channel 4 News’s economics correspondent Faisal Islam believes Germany and France are ready to bail Greece out of its financial crisis.
Channel 4 News’s economic correspondent Faisal Islam imagines how quantitative tightening might take place.
The message in the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Green Budget, published today, is: don’t cut now but plan credible larger cuts for the entirety of the next parliament, blogs Faisal Islam.
Economics correspondent Faisal Islam describes interviewing Conservative leader David Cameron, who says his party would start cutting the deficit this year, even if Britain relapses into recession.
Attending the Davos World Economic Forum, Conservative leader David Cameron knows that if he is elected, his country’s role in the world will be substantially different to that of his predecessors, blogs Faisal Islam.
Ken vs Mandy, “it’s mostly monetary” for the Tories and the gift of the Gabay, blogs Faisal Islam.
Faisal Islam blogs on the end of the recession and Alastair Darling’s tactics.
Britain has squeaked out of recession but the figures are consistent with the dreaded double-dip, blogs Faisal Islam.
Faisal Islam blogs on the difference to the election battle the end of the recession could make.
Faisal Islam writes about India’s ‘carbon nationalism’.
Faisal Islam describe the scene as another family joins the ranks of India’s 500 million electricity “haves”.
A week after returning from Jharia the evidence of my handkerchief was that there was plenty of coal dust still to emerge from my respiratory system. Our team had just returned from a shocking sight, the burning coalfields near India’s coal capital Dhanbad. It was undoubtedly a form of hell.
On the day Gordon Brown appears to have headed off a leadership challenge, Faisal Islam predicts that a batch of good economic statistics could mean a 25 March general electioni
As Iceland’s president refuses to sign a bill to compensate UK taxpayers for bailing out Icesave, Faisal Islam concludes that this is the mess created when a banking system outgrows a state’s capacity to support its liabilities.