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Politicians flounder amid gathering economic storm
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.
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France and Germany could bail Greece out
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.
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QE is halted. All hail QT – The Mervyn and George Show
February 4, 2010 6:12 pm No Comments
Channel 4 News's economic correspondent Faisal Islam imagines how quantitative tightening might take place.
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Covert bank loans revealed
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.
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The American economy grows again
October 29, 2009 2:59 pm No Comments
Channel 4 News reporter Faisal Islam examines America's economic figures.
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Congratulations! How the warming housing market is underpinned by your taxes.
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?
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Where now for the Tory defenders of the City?
September 4, 2009 2:05 pm No Comments
About two years ago I met one of the top British bankers and asked for an opinion on Brown/Darling vs Cameron/Osborne. I was shocked to hear his scepticism about the Tory business policy versus the government. To be clear, this was Brown at his absolute peak, still ahead in the polls, just before Northern Rock [...]
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Should banks' growth be stopped?
September 3, 2009 11:35 am No Comments
Size does matter to the G20 finance ministers. We know this in relation to the extent of the recovery. Some feel recovery has bedded down sufficiently to allow talk of ‘exit strategies’ from the extraordinary stimulus seen around the world. Others, including the chancellor, fear that “the biggest single risk to recovery is that people [...]

