After the Carney-val, a less independent Bank of England?
As Mark Carney takes the reins at the Bank of England, Economics Editor Faisal Islam looks at the politics behind his surprise appointment.
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As Mark Carney takes the reins at the Bank of England, Economics Editor Faisal Islam looks at the politics behind his surprise appointment.
Respected think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns the current period of austerity could last for a further six years as the chancellor is forced to extend cuts into the next parliament.
Mark Carney, the current governor of the Bank of Canada, is announced as the surprise replacement for the governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King.
As the Bank of England’s governor tells the government it can ease off the inflation target, Economics Editor Faisal Islan asks whether it’s the right direction to go.
An independent review into practices around Libor calls for a new body to regulate the inter-bank lending rate, but falls short of scrapping the benchmark.
Channel 4 News announces Shaminder Nahal as the programme’s new deputy editor. Joining from Newsnight, Shaminder is the first major hire following Ben de Pear’s appointment as editor.
A day after the central bank governor tells Channel 4 News it is acceptable for Britain to miss its debt target, new figures show government borrowing rising to a record high for August.
Sir Mervyn King offers green lights to George Osborne, but promises no green shoots to the rest of us. Faisal Islam dissects the Bank of England governor’s comments in Thursday’s live interview.
A green light for George Osborne to miss the debt target? In his interview on Channel 4 News, Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King hints that slow world growth would be an “acceptable excuse”.
On Thursday of this week (20 September), a remarkable moment on Channel 4 News. The Governor of the Bank of England Sir Mervyn King will give his first ever live extended television interview.
It is the most powerful job ever advertised in Britain. It’s not just that the Bank of England Governor sets monetary policy, interest rates for savers and for borrowers.
Standard Chartered shares rebound as British politicians and officials rally behind the bank, blaming protectionist US regulators for attacking London to boost Wall Street’s fortunes.
The UK’s economy is not expected to grow at all in 2012 and it will take an “Olympic” effort and hard work to battle the eurozone crisis, domestic deficit-cutting and tight credit conditions.
When filmmaker Paul Kelly first pointed his camera at the Olympic site in east London it was a strange wasteland. Writing for Channel 4 News, he describes what he found seven summers later.
Heads of state from around the world are meeting in London with business leaders including IMF head Christine Lagarde and Google’s Eric Schmidt on the eve of Friday’s Olympics opening ceremony.