Blog posts tagged "Economy"

May 14, 2012 10:51 am 13 Comments

"... there has been a 'cultural breakdown' at the bank, not by a lone 'rogue trader' but by the entire team in the trusted department in which the losses occurred."

March 19, 2012 11:39 am 14 Comments

Never before has there been so many Budget leaks, and discussion of what tomorrow's Budget will hold. But is it a sign of a more open, democratic government?

December 9, 2011 7:54 am 74 Comments

Cameron's emphasis on his own veto did not obscure the reality that 17 Euro members, plus some half a dozen aspirant members, have agreed a much tighter fiscal regime, trading significant areas of sovereignty to achieve it.

November 15, 2011 9:22 am 18 Comments

Amid warnings that banks are now ‘too big to save’, and signs of a tug-of-war in Europe, perhaps the crashing of banks is what we can now see on our Christmas horizons.

October 27, 2011 11:21 am 18 Comments

After the eurozone bailout plan is agreed, Jon Snow asks what difference it will make if we are still unable to police the bankers?

October 25, 2011 10:05 am 52 Comments

Jon Snow ponders on whether the nature of protest has changed, as it emerges that only one in 10 of the tents at the Occupy London demo is actually occupied over night.

August 1, 2011 2:50 pm 72 Comments

It is extraordinary to be sitting in the United States in amidst these cathartic shenanigans on Capitol Hill. Jon Snow blogs from America.

July 19, 2011 6:51 am 47 Comments

"No one knows where it would end... Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers... London?"

June 6, 2011 7:02 am 45 Comments

Jon Snow looks at events around the world - the good news and the bad.

April 11, 2011 7:38 am 19 Comments

Will a report aiming to shake-up the UK banking sector really change anything? Or will banking remain a so-called Inside Job?