Jon Snow
Payback time for the UK and Europe?
So is it payback time for the worst financial crisis in living memory? If so, who was to blame?
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Jon Snow
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Faisal Islam
Budget 2014: Carney butts in on a day of surprises
This is George Osborne’s big chance. It is the first time he will hold up the budget box at a time of a robustly growing economy. It has been a four-year wait for this pleasure.
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Faisal Islam
Why ‘Davos Man’ pontificates about inequality over canapes and fine wine
There are many on my Twitter stream who find it grotesque that the supposed “masters of the universe” who failed to create a safe financial world order are still on top.
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Faisal Islam
At Davos, the crisis is now off the menu
Davos Man is trying to put behind him some six years of financial fear. Doom Davos and Deleveraging Davos have been replaced by Dealmaking Davos. The dust is settling.
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Faisal Islam
When Goldman Sachs met the sticky label factory in Stockport
Channel 4 News gains an exclusive insight into Goldman Sachs, and the scheme that teaches small businesses to be imaginative and think big.
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Faisal Islam
Osborne finally achieves economic momentum
Today’s GDP numbers are not the highest under George Osborne’s chancellorship. But they offer the possibility that confidence and investment will trigger a virtuous spiral in the Uk economy.
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Faisal Islam
2012/13: lowest year for official UK housebuilding since the 1920s
135,117 – the next time you hear a politician, any politician, talk about the cost of living, think about this number. Why? Because it marks the lowest point in UK house-building in nearly 100 years.
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Faisal Islam
From Kuala Lumpur: How Britain is exporting its homes
Plush apartments across London are being snapped up by foreign buyers – who choose them off-plan at glitzy events held across Asia. It’s forcing up prices back here – in an already inflated market.
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Faisal Islam
Living standards crisis is a housing crisis
Seaside Devon shows starkly how high house prices are pushing down quality of life. We meet local people affected by the squeeze and asks if a housebuilding push can help.
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Faisal Islam
War and peace in battles between Britain and the banking sector
Outgoing Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King’s insistence that banks shore up their balance sheets met with widespread resistance – but Barclays is leading the way.
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Faisal Islam
After a long gestation, Prince George delivers an infant recovery
A story of business success at a car components plant in the Midlands – as George Osborne hails a revovery and says he is determined to stick to his economic plan.
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Faisal Islam
The sunlounger recovery, not the double dip
It may not be a double dip, but is this “sunlounger recovery” really something to celebrate?
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Faisal Islam
The Chancellor’s sunlit uplands
The spending round contained some surprises and innovations, Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
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Faisal Islam
‘Grossly’ misleading claims on investment?
What is actually happening to capital spending? Just where did the chancellor get his £300bn number from?
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Jon Snow
Dirty banking still a problem
As Sir Mervyn King prepares to step down as Bank of England chief, his continued insistence that the UK’s major banks still need to recapitalise is deeply worrying.