Blog posts tagged "David Cameron"

January 18, 2012 12:36 pm 13 Comments

History shows that when unemployment reaches today's level it has always shot much higher, reports Economics Editor Faisal Islam.

November 21, 2011 9:26 pm 11 Comments

Yet another housing initiative is announced, but will it make up for the 260,000 planned homes that have been pulled by councils? Marrying local planning with the free market is a risk for the UK's housing market.

November 19, 2011 2:53 pm 21 Comments

On Monday, David Cameron will announce a significant housing scheme including some sort of mortgage indemnity scheme for new build homes. There are many many questions about such a well-intentioned scheme designed to help rebuild the broken lower rungs of Britain's housing market.

November 17, 2011 4:20 pm 4 Comments

When David Cameron travels to Berlin to meet Chancellor Merkel, top of the agenda will be coaxing the European Central Bank in Frankfurt to act as last resort lender to the Eurozone's troubled nations reports Economics Editor Faisal Islam.

September 22, 2011 7:06 pm 7 Comments

Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports from Athens as the Greek debt crisis fuels further global pleas for concerted action from Europe's political leaders.

September 14, 2011 4:45 pm 10 Comments

Euro crisis, poor jobs figures, massive national strikes, on top of high inflation squeezing living standards - Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on the political response to the economic bad weather.

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?

November 9, 2010 11:58 am 1 Comment

Our Economics Editor looks at David Cameron's trade mission to China and asks whether Britain really stands to gain very much in a world where the emerging powers of China and India are increasingly calling the tune.

July 29, 2010 3:47 pm 8 Comments

After interviewing the Prime Minister in Delhi this morning it seems to me that David Cameron is not just attempting a love-in with India, but the full on Kama Sutra.

May 7, 2010 10:44 pm 6 Comments

As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?