Faisal Islam on Economics

April 4, 2012 8:08 pm 8 Comments

Why tax changes proposed in the budget could undo the good work of Big Society Capital - the body launched to fund social investment.

March 30, 2012 7:25 pm 4 Comments

As Easter approaches in Andalusia, Faisal Islam visits the Eurozone's biggest headache.

March 29, 2012 2:51 pm 8 Comments

Overqualified, no jobs, and the worst economic year since world war two. What now for Spain's young?

March 28, 2012 1:42 pm 9 Comments

In other words, taking into account, alternate upswings and downswings, the UK has not grown since October 2010, also the month of the Spending Review. That's right, ZERO growth in 5 quarters, 15 months, for which the Coalition's original deficit reduction plan had pencilled in three per cent.

March 24, 2012 3:38 pm 3 Comments

"What is clear though, is that the Office of Tax Simplification does not offer much of an alibi for the change announced on Wednesday."

March 21, 2012 9:05 pm 8 Comments

The fact remains that the decision on the 50p rate was made on the basis of one year's highly distorted data. In some ways it was set up to fail. Many economists will argue that it was always going to.

March 19, 2012 10:05 pm 5 Comments

Faisal's done the maths: George Osborne can't justify his claim that the 50p tax rate isn't generating money.

March 18, 2012 2:58 pm 11 Comments

Faisal Islam on how scrapping national pay bargaining might save lives, and why it will be rather difficult.

March 14, 2012 9:58 pm 12 Comments

A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain's creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.

March 13, 2012 9:26 pm 1 Comment

Lord Heseltine received the freedom of the City of Liverpool, on the day that the creation of thousands of jobs was announced. But all the main political parties seem to be fighting over the Heseltine inheritance of industrial activism.