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Who understands 'the bubble'?
Jon Snow compares the experience of his own grandfather to the bankers of today and asks if anyone really understands “the bubble”?
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As David Cameron trades blows with other European leaders over a financial transactions tax, Channel 4 News asks if the City should be protected.
Britain’s economic prospects take a hammering in Chancellor George Osborne’s autumn statement, as Economics Editor Faisal Islam explains.
Jon Snow compares the experience of his own grandfather to the bankers of today and asks if anyone really understands “the bubble”?
With David Cameron and Angela Merkel at loggerheads, an economist tells Channel 4 News that the German approach to the debt crisis could lead to the break-up of the eurozone.
Could it be George Osborne is still flicking his tail after his plans at the G20 for an IMF safety net to give markets confidence were torpedoed and the French and Germans upped their demands for a financial transaction tax?
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A surprise search at an Acapulco prison has uncovered two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, 19 prostitutes and two bags of marijuana, Mexican authorities confirm.
With Silvio Berlusconi’s future in doubt, Channel 4 News looks at whether Italy is too big to bail out.
Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is planning to stand down after losing his parliamentary majority amid the financial turmoil engulfing Italy. Channel 4 News looks at the country’s economic future.
What is most interesting about an email from a senior manager at the UKBA to all immigration staff at Heathrow Terminal 5 is the reference to how border staff “are no longer able to suspend Secure ID except in the most exceptional circumstances. The Home Secretary has not given us that flexibility”.
Journalists close to Silvio Berlusconi say Italy’s embattled prime minister is about to resign, as a crunch vote looms in the Italian parliament.
Does it matter who is PM of Greece? The astonishing example of Greece’s Project Helios shows just how sovereignty transfer works in a crisis.
The German political establishment sees Silvio Berlusconi as a catastrophic menace and perhaps the biggest single obstacle to world economic stability, writes Gary Gibbon. So what’s next at the G20 in Cannes?
After being forced to abandon plans for a referendum on the EU bailout fund, George Papandreou will learn if his government has the backing of the Greek parliament.
The G20 leaders plus hangers-on are currently discussing a massive boost to the IMF’s lending resources as a back-stop confidence-building measure for markets nervous about just which economy will come close to default next.