Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
Euro News
Written by Alex Foster on 2nd November 2008 – 11:13 amJust as Clegg and the Lib Dems say the UK is as far away as it has ever been from joining the common currency, it seems that the rest of northern Europe is starting to change its mind.
As yesterday’s Independent reported,
The Danish and Swedish governments have begun preparing the ground for referendums on joining the [...]
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Forecasters say “UK recession has begun”
Written by Helen Duffett on 20th October 2008 – 11:55 amThe BBC reports today that the start of recession in the UK has now been pronounced:
The UK economy has “deteriorated dramatically” in the past three months, and is already in a recession, top forecasters have suggested.
The Ernst & Young Item Club says the UK [economy] will shrink by 1% next year, before recovering in 2010 [...]
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Why don’t liberals talk about morality?
Written by James Graham on 17th October 2008 – 1:18 pmFirst a confession: I understand what is going on with the global wunch crunch far less than I’m comfortable with. The world’s leaders seem to be making up as they go along, adopting a throw everything at the market until something sticks approach. Gordon Brown’s plan looked like it was going to pay off at [...]
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Party like it’s 1987?
Written by Helen Duffett on 7th October 2008 – 10:37 amYesterday saw the FTSE 100 sustain its biggest percentage fall in a single day since ‘Black Monday’ in 1987.
Although the banking crisis is having global repercussions, it has raised questions in our own country about blind faith in markets. Just as in the Thatcher era, the Conservatives won’t solve the problems of another Labour [...]
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