Gary Gibbon
Election 2015 – whose side is Obama on?
The UK election debate on the economy is being fought out in Washington today with both Tories and Labour seeking US backing for their rival political ambitions.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Is Merkel still plotting against Juncker?
Angela Merkel may want France to propose Christine Lagarde as the new European Commission boss. But neither she nor Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker are safe bets for the job.
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Gary Gibbon
Growth, Plan B and the eurozone
The government is wrestling with a package of growth measures it would like to announce before the Summer recess. There are internal battles over the scale of all this and some of the content.
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Faisal Islam
Hollande and Merkel dance around the Greece lightning
As Greece heads towards rerun elections, Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam considers whether Europe is heading for a stormy political and economic earthquake
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Faisal Islam
The 1tr mark note – symbol of Germany’s fears
German politicians, reared on the cult of low debt and low inflation, fear that the European Central Bank is losing its Bundesbank DNA, blogs Faisal Islam.
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Matt Frei
Silvio Berlusconi, Herman Cain – you guys should talk
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and US Republican front-runner Herman Cain have probably never exchanged a word. But both are self-made millionaires, have been dogged by alleged issues in connection with their errant libidos, and represent a rejection of traditional party politics.
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Faisal Islam
IMF takes a knife to forecasts for UK growth
If correct the UK economy will have grown more slowly in 2011 than 2010. The IMF’s forecast is well below the 1.7 per cent currently used by the government, writes Faisal Islam.
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Faisal Islam
Where now for the Tory defenders of the City?
About two years ago I met one of the top British bankers and asked for an opinion on Brown/Darling vs Cameron/Osborne. I was shocked to hear his scepticism about the Tory business policy versus the government. To be clear, this was Brown at his absolute peak, still ahead in the polls, just before Northern Rock…
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Jon Snow
I love the sound of breaking glass ceilings
Last night France’s finance minister talked to us on Channel 4 News. So did China’s ambassador to London. They were both in their individual ways impressive. They were both women too. In 2009, well into the 21st century, it is still rare to interview women, even on a programme as enlightened as ours!