What happened to €urogeddon? If you were to believe the collective hysteria of the UK media a few months back, then...
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The Economy Articles
The Libor distraction
Manipulating markets constitutes corporate fraud, regardless of whether or not those who engaged in such activities...
No Grexit
By law, there are no opinion polls conducted in Greece in the fortnight running up to an election. So the latest data...
It’s time for something new
Three numbers in the last week should be ringing alarm bells in the government. First, the IMF downgrade of growth in...
Time for a Plan B
Now that the spring sun is shining the government can blame the snow no longer and it is time that they owned up to...
Smoke and mirrors cloud the Regional Growth Fund
While the £450 million investment is welcome, it is a drop in the ocean compared with the budgets of the...
Ford Focus budget does nothing for today’s pensioners
The big story from the ‘Ford Focus budget' was the personal allowance increased for taxpayers facing a squeeze...
Women’s state pension age
The second reading of the pensions bill is due to arrive in the House of Lords next week, but I want to set out now...
Banks should take their share of the burden
If polls for the by-election in Oldham East and Saddleworth are to be believed, they don't make much political sense...
Labour, the state and markets
Liam Byrne MP [check against delivery]: It's a great pleasure to be speaking here at Progress this afternoon....
How Labour can avoid the ‘deficit deniers’ trap
But the coalition has fought a good propaganda war. Opinion polls suggest, albeit by a narrow margin, that the public...
Desperate Dan gets it wrong again
The always eloquent but invariably misguided Dan Hannan is one of the chief bearers of the Tory party's Thatcherite...