Blog posts tagged "business"

April 21, 2012 7:51 pm 18 Comments

"I am not in, as the chancellor of the exchequer, a daily opinion poll contest and a daily popularity contest. I will tell you what I am engaged in. A daily contest with the rest of the world to make Britain competitive to bring jobs to Britain."

May 27, 2011 3:10 pm 20 Comments

"You could call this the Great Stagnation, you could call it the Disastrous Decoupling, you could call it Growth without Gain. What it definitely is, though, is deeply bad news for a massive swathe of Britain."

May 17, 2011 8:46 am 1 Comment

For the first time, a public suggestion that Finance Ministers will discuss with Greece's creditors about lengthening out the repayment of the country's debts. This would change the "structure" of Greece's national debt, but would fall short of "restructuring". Euro ministers appear to be settling on the concept du jour: "reprofiling".

December 1, 2010 9:12 pm 5 Comments

JP Morgan, the man of the 1920s, rather than today's super-bank, insisted in the 1920s capped executive pay at 20 times the pay of junior bank employees, "arguing that any greater would be harmful to company morale." Plato argued that no citizen should be worth four times another. Successful US firms such as Wholefoods and Ben & Jerry's have had maximum pay multiples of 7:1 and 8:1. So should we care about pay inequality, the ballooning gap between the salaries of top and bottom earners?

October 16, 2010 3:46 pm 20 Comments

Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on how government sources are expecting some train fares to be over 30 per cent higher by 2015, and industry sources pointed towards a 40 per cent hike by 2015.

February 9, 2010 9:04 pm No Comments

Channel 4 News's economics correspondent Faisal Islam believes Germany and France are ready to bail Greece out of its financial crisis.

February 4, 2010 6:12 pm No Comments

Channel 4 News's economic correspondent Faisal Islam imagines how quantitative tightening might take place.

November 24, 2009 8:18 pm No Comments

Channel 4 News Economics correspondent Faisal Islam examines the news that the Bank of England loand more than £60bn to RBS and HBoS in secret.

October 29, 2009 2:59 pm No Comments

Channel 4 News reporter Faisal Islam examines America's economic figures.

October 2, 2009 3:32 pm No Comments

House prices are back at 2008 levels. On average the value of our castles are now back where they were before the Lehman calamity. So is it hooray! three cheers! and high fives all around?