The Germans are coming: 10 things we can learn
With two German football teams meeting in the Champions League final on Saturday, it is time to list the country’s many achievements.
Faisal Islam
Faisal Islam has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his blogs.
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Japan: what happens when monetary medicine wears off?
Quantitative easing has been the emergency medicine keeping economies afloat, but does the fall of the Japanese stock market foreshadow what happens when it ends?
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IMF tells chancellor to boost growth
The IMF backs away from its ringing endorsement of UK economic policy. But the Treasury will be relieved that it has not yet spelled out an alternative policy to austerity.
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Hundreds of new homes from Help to Buy: at what cost?
It’s the centrepiece of the government’s plans to get the economy going after three years of meagre growth.
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Are G7 leaders taking more flexible approach to austerity?
George Osborne said the G7 was agreed on the need to tackle tax evasion and avoidance. But was there something he wasn’t saying at the end of today’s G7 summit in Buckinghamshire?
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No triple dip – not that it really ever mattered
Today’s GDP figures will have prompted relief at the Treasury that there is no new recession. But longer term, the picture for the UK economy is unchanged.
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Osborne: economy healing from a very big shock
Chancellor George Osborne tells Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam he finds today’s GDP figures very encouraging and says he believes the economy is healing.
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No triple dip, but UK economy ‘not out of the woods’
Relief for Chancellor George Osborne as the UK economy records 0.3 per cent growth for the first quarter of 2013 – but the underlying picture of a sluggish economy remains.
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Is souped-up scheme a shot in the arm for lending?
Nick Clegg says the government’s Funding for Lending has been put on steroids. But, if it leads to a house price bubble, is it really an economic policy on smack?
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A bruising week for George Osborne as IMF meets
A tricky week for George Osborne – rising unemployment, a second ratings agency downgrades the UK and the IMF cuts its forecast for the country’s growth this year ahead of its meeting he’s attending.
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Big Bang goes bust?
Among the contenders for “Thatcher’s legacy” is the de-regulation of the City of London. Is Margaret Thatcher responsible for today’s double-dip recession? Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
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Was HBOS the worst bank in the world? You vote
The banking commission has savaged the way HBOS was run, but it is not the only bank that has struck terror into people’s hearts. Are these are the worst offenders? You decide.
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How Greece exported a bank default to Cyprus
Cyprus bailout: the inside story of a president “humiliated” by EU bureaucrats half his age, and of a country pushed over the edge in order to protect Greece.
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Cyprus: no bank run as branches reopen
Banks in Cyprus have reopened, but under tight controls over how much money can be withdrawn. There was certainly no bank run and I even found some people queuing to pay money in.
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The anguish of Cyprus in the words of its people
Economics Editor Faisal Islam hears from ordinary Cypriots as they struggle to come to terms with the financial catastrophe that has overtaken their lives and their country.
