Don’t mess with mortgages – just build more houses
Boris Johnson’s speech today added another item to the long list of policies that have done nothing to address the…
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Forget Right to Buy, what about Right to Rent? The UK’s rent crisis is a political choice
An ideological devotion to home ownership has created a situation in which the most vulnerable consumers are the most exposed…
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UK set to grow slower than every G20 economy except Russia
The OECD has forecast that Britain will record 0 per cent economic growth next year.
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Crisis calls for a new economic paradigm
Just as rising prices and flagging growth did away with Keynesianism in the 1970s, so today they are killing of…
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The ostrich economy is heading for a reckoning
Since 2008, politicians and bankers have kept recession at bay by pretending it wasn’t happening. That strategy is beginning to…
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Levelling down: how the UK’s regional divides are widening
GDP grew by 2.3 per cent in London but contracted by 1.2 per cent in the North East in the…
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Flat wages, surging stocks: how the rich profited from a 13-year stock market surge
The UK’s lightly-taxed asset boom enriched the wealthy while workers endured a lost decade.
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The return of Red Rishi
The windfall tax shows the Chancellor is only popular when he’s forced into policies he doesn’t believe in.
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