Faisal Islam
After 20 years, time to change Merv’s medicine?
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.
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Faisal Islam
Downbeat speech from a resolute chancellor
Economics Editor Faisal Islam reflects on a low-key Conservative conference speech from George Osborne – one which nonetheless contained a few nuggets of new government policy.
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Faisal Islam
Signal failure at the Transport Department
“Right now we don’t even know who will be running the west coast mainline trains in two months time, but today more questions about who is to blame…”
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Jon Snow
The Xstrata factor
Globalisation has brought us all many benefits and not a few curses. Which will the biggest mining-commodities merger in history bring us?
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Jon Snow
Bank of England governor live on Channel 4 News
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.
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Jon Snow
C4 Class of 2012: The 'one million' challenge
It is painful even to write it – one million young people unemployed. Jon Snow blogs on the battle to address and retrieve what some have casually tagged the ‘lost generation’.
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Faisal Islam
Bank of England: QE makes the wealthy even wealthier
The Bank of England has just released a fascinating defence of the unintended consequences of its massive quantitative easing programme. Economics Editor Faisal Islam takes a look.
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Faisal Islam
Can the Treasury blame borrowing figures on North Sea platform?
Faisal Islam questions Chloe Smith’s claim that shocking borrowing figures from the government were down to the closure of a single platform in the North Sea.
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Faisal Islam
To the left, the economic spoils of the Olympic Games
Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on the economic hangover of the Olympic Games.
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Jon Snow
Sun-kissed Greece does not feel on the brink
My head is a spinning confusion of Greek images. Infected by covering the most recent Greek elections earlier this summer, we decided at short notice to dash down here for a week in the sun.
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Faisal Islam
“It could be a lot worse…”: Osborne’s five GDP shuffles
Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on his meeting with George Osborne – and the five key areas where the chancellor has ‘refined’ his views on the economy.
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Faisal Islam
Treasury twins convert to contingent Keynesianism
“We’ve got a big job to do in getting this economy back on its feet,” — Osborne.
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Faisal Islam
Many carrots but no stick for British banking
If Sir Mervyn King can arrange for Bob Diamond’s demise at Barclays, even though he was cleared of personal wrongdoing over Libor, why not exercise a little more coercive power over banks lending money into the real economy?
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Jon Snow
Quantitative unease
It is as if there is a quantitative disease in government; a quantitative collapse of leadership on visionary projects for the future.
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Jon Snow
The human cost of banking misbehaviour
Alan and Margaret thought they were the only people in the world to fall for a financial product misold to them by a bank. It wasn’t until they met hundreds of other victims on-line that their lives began to recover hope. Jon Snow reports on the campaign against mis-selling in tonight’s Dispatches.