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George Osborne's housing boost 'will stave off triple dip' recession
As a million home sales are forecast for year, analysts warn of dangers of new price boomGeorge Osborne's controversial efforts to rekindle the housing market will help to prevent Britain's economy...
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Margaret Thatcher was loved and hated – both for sound economic reasons
The north-south divide, which she did not create but did amplify, is crucial to understanding the mixed feelings she generatesBritain is a deeply divided country. Inner London is the richest part of...
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There's no single, simple solution to low pay | Gavin Kelly
The minimum wage works, but is only part of the puzzle. We need to be more ambitious about wider economic reformAnother year, another drop. The odds are that the impending announcement on the new rate...
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Poll shows gloom and doom for decades as citizens fear for living standards
YouGov-Cambridge surveys shows majorities in Germany, UK and US remain pessimistic about economic future and personally hit by slumpClear majorities across the western world claim to have been...
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Housing market predicted to revive in 2013 with more than 1m to move home
Forecasters Item Club say chancellor's Help to Buy scheme will get people moving but broader economic outlook still gloomyThe housing market will finally return to life this year with more than a...
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Minimum wage to rise but 1% hike for young falls behind inflation
Vince Cable defends lower 4p and 5p an hour rise for under-21s as adult minimum wage increases by 12 pence an hourThe minimum wage for young people is to rise by 1%, less than the rate of inflation,...
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The benefits cap will not address the affordable housing crisis | Claire Kober
The solution to rising housing benefit is to build more affordable homes, not severely disadvantage a million familiesFour boroughs in London including my own, Haringey, have become a testing ground...
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Does the minimum wage keep up with the cost of living?
The minimum wage has risen below the rate of inflation since 2009 and this trend looks set to continue with the 12p increase announced today.• Get the data• More data journalism and data visualisations...
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Why improving productivity in the North means confidence is waning
Local economies will be crucial for the UK's recovery, but recent rises in business productivity in North seem to suggest, paradoxically, that bosses are not expecting an imminent resurgenceThe North's...
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Jeremy Grantham on how to feed the world and why he invests in oil | Leo Hickman
The co-founder of investment group GMO on what books he's reading and why he wants to fund 'avant garde' farmingYesterday, I posted part one of the transcript from my Saturday Guardian interview with...
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UK inflation since 1948
Inflation in the UK has remained unchanged from February. Get the full data over time, see how it compares with pay - and understand the new measures• Interactive inflation data explorer from Timetric•...
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When Britain stops blaming itself, it can overthrow the existing order |...
A depressed, introverted 'look after No 1' mentality has ruled for 30 years. But a poll shows we may be ready for radical changeFollowing the credit crunch, you might have supposed free market thinking...
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George Osborne should ease off on austerity, IMF warns
International Monetary Fund cuts UK growth forecasts and urges chancellor to show greater flexibility in deficit-reduction strategyGeorge Osborne has been told by the International Monetary Fund to...
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IMF puts pressure on George Osborne with criticism of cuts
UK is singled out as country that should adopt less aggressive approach as IMF publishes report on world economic outlookGeorge Osborne is under mounting pressure to moderate his austerity strategy...
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It's time to bury not just Thatcher – but Thatcherism | Seumas Milne
She didn't save Britain or turn the economy round. We need to break with her failed model to escape its baleful consequencesThey have only themselves to blame. Protests were always likely at any...
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UK unemployment rise adds to pressure on Osborne's austerity strategy
Unemployment reaches 2.56 million as another 20,000 under-25s add their names to the registerUnemployment jumped by 70,000 in the three months to the end of February and pay rises registered the lowest...
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If the IMF is criticising UK austerity, things must be bad | Michael Burke
Britain has been singled out by one of the troika for its weak growth, proving the failure of Tory ideology and economic policyThe failure of the government's economic policy has led to a damning...
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The UK jobless figures speak for themselves. And Osborne knows it | Liam Byrne
The IMF warned him and the facts back it up: on the economy, employment, pay and welfare, government policy has failedI think we can say the jury is in. And the verdict is blunt: this government's...
View ArticlePeter Duggan's Artoons: from Pompeii's boom to Britain's bust
The cartoonist points out that George Osborne's stranglehold on the British economy could rival any natural disaster
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Heard that countries should 'compete' on tax? Wrong | Ellie Mae O'Hagan and...
Tax competition – in which countries fight to lower taxes – not only hits the poor, it doesn't even help the economy growA myth we're repeatedly told is that a country must be "tax competitive" in...
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