Faisal Islam
Exclusive: leak from secret FSA Barclays assessment
Treasury Select Committee chair Andrew Tyrie drops a bombshell, Faisal Islam at the hearing looks at revelations so far.
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Faisal Islam
Barclays chief condemns Bollinger dudes
On a day when it’s pretty clear that the authorities asserted dominion over our banking system, I was invited atop the Canary Wharf tower that houses Barclays to speak to its now un-resigned executive chairman Marcus Agius. He is not prone to lengthy answers, but I think much of what he does and does not say is rather telling.
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Faisal Islam
‘Lie-bor’ London: Duuuuude, where’s Barclays’ bonus?
Faisal Islam blogs on how Barclays started to try and make money from changing its rates – and why ‘Lie-bor’ London should be afraid.
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Jon Snow
Pain and pity for the waning glory of Greece
A gorgeous country, engaging people, rewarding cuisine, and the richest remnants of its own history of any country on earth. Yes, Greece has it all – at one level. At another, it boasts some of the most corrupt people in influential places and some of the worst structures of governance and civic observance on the continent of Europe.
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Faisal Islam
Panic averted, but chronic Greek pain continues
Faisal Islam blogs from Athens on the implications of a dramatic Greek election.
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Jon Snow
Dreams and nightmares in Athens
“The chanting was amongst the most obscene I’ve ever heard. In short, Angela Merkel was being invited to put the entire Euro crisis up her posterior.”
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Faisal Islam
Fear not hope as Greeks contemplate returning to the drachma
“Many in the crowd believe in one simple equation – A Syriza win equals a bank run on Sunday evening.”
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Faisal Islam
Euro crisis 2012 vs Euro 2012
Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on the Euro crisis 2012 versus Euro 2012.
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Faisal Islam
Syriza versus the Bundesbank for the soul of the eurozone
This seems a game of the Greek left versus the Bundesbank, for the soul of the eurozone.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Austerity medication – does it cure or kill the patient?
“Maybe we’re going to hell,” said Irene Lozano, an independent Deputy in the Spanish Assembly. “But if we do, we’ll take Germany with us.”
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Faisal Islam
Five types of Drachmail ‘tearing the eurozone apart’
I see five types of euro-related blackmail going on that will determine Greece’s fate in the eurozone. What might be called “Drachmail”.
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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
These GDP figures are terrible news for the coalition
In the end, it wasn’t marginal. This morning GDP figures show Britain clearly back in recession, the dreaded double dip, with GDP in key one at -0.2 per cent.
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Faisal Islam
Chancellor: We have completely won the argument on austerity
“I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world to make Britain competitive to bring jobs to Britain.”
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Faisal Islam
Britain commits extra £10bn to International Monetary Fund
“The chancellor is adamant that this is not a further back-door bailout of the eurozone.”