The UK economy faces a lost decade of economic stagnation due to the ‘deepening crisis’ in the world economy, shadow chancellor Ed Balls warned the Labour Party conference today.
The new head of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has hit the ground criticising. And it is the chancellor's over-rigid fiscal tightening that former government chief economist...
Banks’ high street operations should be separated from their investment arms to reduce the risk of the system needing government bail-outs, a long awaited report into the future of UK banking...
The UK’s economic recovery will remain ‘weak’ throughout the rest of 2011, but growth will improve in 2012, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.
Giving local authorities control of Council Tax Benefit certainly fits in with ministers’ localism plans. But by combining it with a 10% grant cut, the coalition is also passing the buck for cutting...
It is not sustainable for the eurozone to support the sheer volume of existing private and public sector debt in member nations. Either restructuring of the debt, or reconstitution of the eurozone,...
The current turmoil in the global financial markets has 'vindicated' the government's decisions over spending cuts, Chancellor George Osborne said yesterday.
The North of England needs a ten-year strategy to stop the concentration of economic power in London, the Institute for Public Policy Research North has said.
Fiscal loosening ‘initially protected most people from the impact of the recession’ but ‘now we face five years of paying for it’, Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson told the CIPFA...
CIPFA members have a major role to play in the success of the government's deficit-reduction strategy, the new institute president told conference delegates this morning.
Japan's economy was in deep trouble well before the recent natural disasters struck. As it struggles to pick up the pieces, what lessons are there to be learnt from the country's 'lost decades'?
The American economy is hurting, and the pain is being pushed down to local government level. As debt rows rage on Capitol Hill, how are US cities and states trying to balance their budgets? PF...
