Blog posts tagged "Faisal Islam"

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

May 9, 2012 10:51 am 10 Comments

As the Greek stock market tumbles are the politicians now seeking to form a government say they will defy the EU, but can they do that? Faisal Islam reports from Athens.

April 25, 2012 10:45 am 18 Comments

In the end, it wasn’t marginal. This morning GDP figures show Britain clearly back in recession, the dreaded double dip, with GDP in key one at -0.2 per cent.

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."

April 18, 2012 12:40 pm 4 Comments

Today's figures show an unexpected welcome fall in unemployment, youth unemployment, and a small rise in the claimant count - over the next few months C4 News will continue telling the story of jobs in Britain with a series of reports for the Channel 4 Jobs Report (#c4jobs).

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.

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 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 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.