Qualified support for GCSE students who can help to build a balanced economy...
As the latest cohort of students collect their GCSE results (Report, 21 August), we at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors have been pondering the research from the Federation of Master...
View ArticleMark Carney's blue-sky take on interest rates misses clouds on the horizon
The Bank of England governor believes the UK economy is well insulated from global shocks, but his forecasts could easily go awryForget the financial turmoil in China and around the world. When it...
View ArticleCiti report: slowing global warming would save tens of trillions of dollars |...
A report from America’s 3rd-largest bank asks why we’re not transitioning to a low-carbon economyCiti Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS), a division within Citibank (America’s third-largest...
View Article'National living wage' dodgers face higher penalties
Crackdown on non-compliance announced by David Cameron includes new HMRC unit to spot offending employersEmployers who fail to pay the new “national living wage” face increased fines under a crackdown...
View ArticleEconomic growth will not be the answer to the UK's housing crisis
Britain’s economy is likely to grow but so too will house prices and rents, prolonging the country’s crisis of unaffordable housingThe UK enjoyed the fastest economic growth in the developed world in...
View ArticleOsborne backs Chote for second term as head of budget watchdog
Chancellor confirms nomination and says Robert Chote is ‘undoubtedly best person’ to chair Office for Budget ResponsibilityRobert Chote, chairman of the budget watchdog the Office for Budget...
View ArticleYvette Cooper says Corbyn's economic proposals 'are like private finance on...
Labour leadership candidates Jeremy Corbyn, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall, and Andy Burnham take part in the final hustings debate, hosted by Sky News in Gateshead on Thursday. Cooper strongly criticises...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Australia can weather a Chinese economic downturn
In an interview with Guardian Australia, the Nobel prize-winning economist expresses scepticism about the China free trade agreement and a GST increase Australia is resilient enough to weather the...
View ArticleCorbynomics sounds subversive, but maybe not for long | Tom Clark
In the post-slump era, radical ideas can quickly go mainstream and turn economic orthodoxy on its headFifty-five economists have written to the Financial Times to caution that Jeremy Corbyn is out of...
View ArticleThis refugee crisis is too big for Europe to handle - its institutions are...
The EU needs a new asylum system based on reality. But without an influx of migrants, it faces a future of economic stagnationWhen you cut through the horror and the hypocrisy, the exodus across the...
View ArticleWill Atlas shrug in face of Corbynomics? | Letters from Professor Paul Levine...
Tom Clark, writing (Opinion, 4 September) in response to our letter to the FT, misses our main point in saying that Corbynomics “feels subversive but maybe not for long”. We were responding to the...
View ArticleVince Cable: ‘Historically, the coalition will be seen as a success’ – interview
Before, he was known as St Vince, the straight-talking, ballroom-dancing MP who predicted the crash. Five years on, Vince Cable is without a job – and ready to lift the lid on the ToriesRead an...
View ArticleVince Cable: ‘The Tories collectively could be appalling’
In an exclusive extract from his new book, After The Storm, Vince Cable reveals the tensions at the heart of the coalition‘The coalition will be seen as a success’: read our interview with Vince Cable...
View ArticleLabour leadership races can change fast; interest rates, not so much
Jeremy Corbyn looks like a racing certainty. But whatever happens, the election will be more definite than the endless false alarms sounded over the base rateThat bookmaker Paddy Power had not only...
View ArticleGoverning should be about democracy, say economists
Yanis Varoufakis is among signatories to a letter asking Britain and the EU to sign up to a nine-point UN code putting democratic rights – and not the market – at the heart of international...
View ArticleWhat's the catch? MPs warn UKFI over banks' £1 privatisation fees
Treasury committee members tell investments fund to be ‘ultra-vigilant’ on motives behind token bank fees for work on Lloyds and RBS sell-offsThe company established by the Treasury to hold the...
View ArticleHow do we fund the refugee crisis? With a Tobin tax | Andrew Simms
The world could pay for one problematic cross-border movement by taxing another – international currency tradingIt took a single image to move governments to accept moral responsibility for humane...
View ArticleUK goods exports suffer worst month in nearly five years
Fragile world economy takes toll on manufacturing as trade deficit widens to £3.4bn in July from £2.6bn in June Fears are growing about the strength of Britain’s economic recovery, after sharp falls in...
View ArticleFive centuries ago Africa was booming: it can rise again | Emmanuel...
The first European explorers were amazed at the continent’s wealth. Now, after centures of slavery and colonialism, its economies are starting to strengthenWhen Portuguese explorers first arrived on...
View ArticleUK social care system failing most vulnerable | Letters
The health and social care problems besetting our four nations are depicted clearly in microcosm in Polly Toynbee’s perceptive analysis of the situation at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge (The long...
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