Blog posts tagged "UK economy"

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 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 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.

January 25, 2012 3:36 pm 7 Comments

The UK is probably in recession already, but the growth of the economy since the Oct 2010 spending review is just one tenth of government predictions at the time.

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 28, 2011 6:05 pm 4 Comments

So from a chopper above the Thames I see a nation that used to build the world's infrastructure that now wants the world to build ours. Infrastructure spending not by our government, but from abroad -- from state guaranteed companies - from the Arab world and China paying for Britain's infrastructure.

November 16, 2011 11:11 am 12 Comments

It has been pretty clear that these figures reflect existing weakness, not a crisis that exploded in July/August.

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.

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.

September 8, 2011 8:23 pm 6 Comments

Faisal Islam on the fall-out from the downgrading of Britain's growth figures