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IMF tells chancellor to boost growth
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has backed away from its ringing endorsement of UK economic policy.
In the past two years, the end of its annual Article IV consultation with Britain has been brandished by George Osborne as vindication of his deficit reduction plan, despite disappointing growth.
Hundreds of new homes from Help to Buy: at what cost?
It’s the centrepiece of the government’s plans to get the economy going after three years of meagre growth.
No triple dip – not that it really ever mattered
Today’s GDP figures will have prompted relief at the Treasury that there is no new recession. But longer term, the picture for the UK economy is unchanged.
Is souped-up scheme a shot in the arm for lending?
Nick Clegg says the government’s Funding for Lending has been put on steroids. But, if it leads to a house price bubble, is it really an economic policy on smack?
Was HBOS the worst bank in the world? You vote
The banking commission has savaged the way HBOS was run, but it is not the only bank that has struck terror into people’s hearts. Are these are the worst offenders? You decide.
How Greece exported a bank default to Cyprus
Cyprus bailout: the inside story of a president “humiliated” by EU bureaucrats half his age, and of a country pushed over the edge in order to protect Greece.
The anguish of Cyprus in the words of its people
Economics Editor Faisal Islam hears from ordinary Cypriots as they struggle to come to terms with the financial catastrophe that has overtaken their lives and their country.
Nicosia’s corralito: the kids leading Cyprus’s controlled anger
Chanting “Troika go home” to the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army, Economics Editor Faisal Islam meets the kids leading the controlled anger in Cyprus at its bailout terms.
Pipelines, and deposit lines: a view from north Cyprus
In Turkish controlled northern Cyprus there is a sense of schadenfreude over the financial woes of its southern neighbour, but also that unifying the island is “back on the agenda”.
Of zombie budgets and mortgage subsidies
The chancellor’s plans to boost the housing market are “well down the list of Britain’s economic to-do list, and arguably well up the not-to-do list”.
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