The cost of unemployment
Faisal Islam blogs on the rise in unemployment to over 2.5m just two weeks ahead of the general election.
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Faisal Islam blogs on the rise in unemployment to over 2.5m just two weeks ahead of the general election.
Faisal Islam blogs on the IMF report into making banks pay their own way
Faisal Islam blogs on how he believes the Conservatives may be feeling a little edgy after last night’s leaders’ debate.
If the election was a prize for fiscal candour, the Liberal Democrats might actually win, blogs Faisal Islam.
Faisal Islam blogs on how Conservative adviser Martin Read has revealed more of the Tories’ spending cuts plans, but the party won’t release the full calculations.
Faisal Islam blogs on Labour’s fightback against the Conservative’s high profile election camapign against Labour’s planned national insurance rise.
Faisal Islam blogs on the stance of Labour, Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to cutting the UK’s £167bn national debt.
About five minutes after Channel 4’s Ask the Chancellors debate had ended, Britain’s first ever “spin room” was invaded by a phalanx of sharp-suited Conservatives, blogs Faisal Islam.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that he will reverse Labour’s planned rise in national insurance puts clear blue water between the main parites, blogs Faisal Islam.
What has happened to the giant pothole in the public finances? The answer is that some of it, more than expected, has been filled in, but not by Mr Darling, writes Faisal Islam.
Ahead of the budget, we already have the start of a Dutch auction between the main parties on bank taxes that seeks to tap into enduring public anger for electoral purposes, writes Faisal Islam.
Faisal Islam blogs on what he hopes will be asked in the Chancellors’ debate, which will be broadcast on Channel 4 on Monday 29th March.
The FSA has issued a remarkable detailed account of a phone call by Tim Geithner, then head of the US Federal Reserve, to the FSA chairman about an embryonic attempt by Barclays to buy pre-bankruptcy Lehman Brothers, writes Faisal Islam.
The really concerning aspect of today’s trade figures is that this figure has occurred over two years after the pound depreciated by 25 per cent, writes Faisal Islam
At the moment both parties are conniving in exaggerating their differences like two weary boxers clinging on to each other in the closing stages of a long fight, writes Faisal Islam.