The IMF reveals Britain’s shadow fiscal stimulus
The IMF Fiscal monitor reveals that George Osborne is borrowing money after all – but he’s not calling it stimulus spending, since it falls within his deficit reduction plan.
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The IMF Fiscal monitor reveals that George Osborne is borrowing money after all – but he’s not calling it stimulus spending, since it falls within his deficit reduction plan.
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on the French presidential elections
Why tax changes proposed in the budget could undo the good work of Big Society Capital – the body launched to fund social investment.
Spain sets out deep budget cuts which its treasury minister has called ‘the most austere’ in the country’s democratic history, despite fierce popular resistance.
Overqualified, no jobs, and the worst economic year since world war two. What now for Spain’s young?
In other words, taking into account, alternate upswings and downswings, the UK has not grown since October 2010, also the month of the Spending Review. That’s right, ZERO growth in 5 quarters, 15 months, for which the Coalition’s original deficit reduction plan had pencilled in three per cent.
Faisal’s done the maths: George Osborne can’t justify his claim that the 50p tax rate isn’t generating money.
A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain’s creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
As job creation becomes a crucial issue in 2012, Channel 4 News looks behind the headlines at how the UK is faring in the first quarter of the year.
Lord Heseltine received the freedom of the City of Liverpool, on the day that the creation of thousands of jobs was announced. But all the main political parties seem to be fighting over the Heseltine inheritance of industrial activism.
As the government launches a new programme for people who cannot raise the big deposits many mortgage lenders expect, Channel 4 News takes a close look at the NewBuy scheme.
I have just spoken to the Dutch finance minister Jan Kees de Jager, on his way in to today’s euro group meeting. Mr de Jager’s comments to me in English and some in Dutch made just before caused a marked popping of the europhoria bubble and a sharp move in the foreign exchange markets.
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis writes for Channel 4 News about why the euro crisis should not simply be seen through the prism of a famous Aesop fable.
As the Greek president hits back at criticisms of his country from the EU, it looks like the Greek deal could be unravelling.
The Governor of the Bank of England today predicted further quarters of negative GDP growth this year following the latest -0.2% slump recorded in the last quarter of last year. Britain’s economy is likely to “zig-zag” between positive and negative growth said the Governor, introducing the Bank’s quarterly economic healthcheck. Sir Mervyn said that the…