Why the Canadian experience may not be answer for the UK economy
Faisal Islam blogs on why the cuts of the Canadian government in the 1990s are not a good place to start when looking at the coalition’s spending plans.
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Congress and to a lesser extent the Senate are up for grabs in tomorrow’s US midterm elections. Jon Snow evaluates Barack Obama’s first two years in office, asking do the electorate really know him?
Airline passengers will have to pay up to £170 more to fly from next week as new aviation taxes are introduced, as the head of BA tells Channel 4 News the levy is “naïve”.
The economic euphoria of the ‘go go years’ quickly turned to bust as the credit crisis rocked banks and entire continents. But what lessons have been learned by global finance?
Channel 4 News FactCheck analyses the London Mayor Boris Johnson’s claim that the government’s cap on immigration from outside the EU is putting the economic recovery at risk
“These sanctions are not aimed at the Iranian people,” said the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, in the Security Council session where the new resolution was passed. “These sanctions are as tough as they are smart and precise.” Targeting banks, shipping lines and companies which help the government’s nuclear and missile programmes,…
Faisal Islam blogs on why the cuts of the Canadian government in the 1990s are not a good place to start when looking at the coalition’s spending plans.
If a new round of austerity measures in Greece fail, analysts tell Channel 4 News the country’s financial crisis could spread and leave a chunk of the world economy in ruins.
Jonathan Rugman blogs on today’s attempted suicide attack on the British ambassador in Yemen.
Gary Gibbon blogs on the party leaders responses so far in the second leaders’ debate.
The Liberal Democrat turned to banking in this morning’s briefing and FactCheck turned to some of their statements.
Faisal Islam blogs on how he believes the Conservatives may be feeling a little edgy after last night’s leaders’ debate.
Gary Gibbon on the final pre-election PMQs and a forthcoming profile on David Cameron.
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.
Channel 4 News reporter Faisal Islam examines America’s economic figures.
Yet more indications today of Britain’s radically altered political landscape. Some irony that the Labour left’s long-desired aim to cancel a raft of multibillion pound defence contracts will, in all probability, be realised by a Conservative chancellor responding to the costs of a crisis in capitalism. I can’t get across enough how much this crisis…