recession Articles

The central debate about the economic outlook among economists and investment managers is the extent to which economies have recovered from the financial crisis. Strong growth in gross domestic campaign has finally appeared in the United Kingdom after a severe...

Books about the global financial crisis and its aftermath have tended to fall in to two camps: attempts by spectators to explain what decisions were made, and attempts by participants to justify why they were made. European Spring is intriguing because its author,...

From the start, there was something different about the last recession. The financial crisis hit all sectors of the economy at the same time and demand fell across the economy. People were angry yet the backlash was relatively muted. The Occupy demonstrations for a...

I don’t think there is much dispute that Britain’s industrial base is too weak and too narrow. If that weren’t the case we probably wouldn’t be in a double-dip recession. And we certainly wouldn’t be in a crisis with 2.6m unemployed, youth unemployment of more than...