Blog posts tagged "Economy"

May 15, 2012 9:44 pm 3 Comments

As Greece heads towards rerun elections, Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam considers whether Europe is heading for a stormy political and economic earthquake

April 12, 2012 8:51 pm 9 Comments

I've spent the day buried in spreadsheets and statistics looking at insights for our C4 Jobs Report. In the course of that I got a closer look at the GDP numbers released as part of the Quarterly National Accounts a fortnight ago, writes Faisal Islam.

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.

February 15, 2012 9:29 pm 16 Comments

As the Greek president hits back at criticisms of his country from the EU, it looks like the Greek deal could be unravelling.

February 13, 2012 9:12 pm 9 Comments

Greece has voted in favour of the EU/IMF austerity package. But why is Germany pushing stability throughout Europe - and what is it hoping to achieve?

February 11, 2012 11:39 am 6 Comments

Greece is being cauterised. The EU, ECB, and others have prepared the ground for Greece to be detached from the eurozone. Greece now has a horrible choice to make, says Channel 4 News economics editor Faisal Islam.

December 7, 2011 7:02 pm 11 Comments

Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam says the European Financial Stability Facility bailout fund is being "quietly forgotten" in favour of the European Stability Mechanism.

November 29, 2011 8:52 am 10 Comments

...the OBR's advice will be the most unwelcome since Thomas Becket's to Henry II, writes Economics Editor Faisal Islam.

November 4, 2011 8:59 pm 2 Comments

Does it matter who is PM of Greece? The astonishing example of Greece's Project Helios shows just how sovereignty transfer works in a crisis.

October 14, 2011 2:58 pm 1 Comment

At the G20 meeting in Europe, the emerging economies appear so fed up with the damage done to global economic confidence by the festering euro crisis, that they might just be about to take matters into their own hands.