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How to survive the recession
- Iain Macwhirter
- 21 August 2008
The days of easy loans are over and people are having to live within their means. But it is not all bad news. Iain Macwhirter on the lessons for the government, and what you can do
Many happy returns, credit crunch
- Alex Brummer
- 07 August 2008
- 1 comment
Only about half of the £250bn of toxic debt at the heart of the crunch has been fully recognised. That means many more months of misery
It's not all doom and gloom
- Alex Brummer
- 24 July 2008
How refreshing to see the boss of a major corporation demonstrate that he is willing to swim against the tide
We're not yet running on empty
- Alex Brummer
- 10 July 2008
- 6 comments
The upward movement in the price of oil has far more to do with speculation than with a shortage of supply
Is this the return of stagflation?
- Alex Brummer
- 26 June 2008
As growth slows and prices surge, the economic outlook has echoes of the disastrous 1970s . . . but, for the moment, things aren't quite that bad
When rights go very wrong
- Alex Brummer
- 12 June 2008
- 3 comments
The big banks' risky fundraising technique - offering bargain shares to private investors in "rights issues" - is a disaster for a City already in crisis
No more lectures, please
- Alex Brummer
- 29 May 2008
- 1 comment
The Prime Minister took the credit for the good economic times. Now people expect him to shoulder some blame for the bad times
How the IMF found a new role
- Alex Brummer
- 17 April 2008
- 1 comment
The International Monetary Fund had few friends and not enough to do. But its prediction of the credit-based crisis finally has people listening
Heads I win, tails you lose
- Alex Brummer
- 03 April 2008
The credit crunch was due to an orgy of reckless lending by the world's banks. But for the people who brought us this mess, it's still bonuses all round
Why the Tesco tax story rankles
- Alex Brummer
- 06 March 2008
- 2 comments
The supermarket group's alleged behaviour has provoked outrage, but hundreds of other British companies are doing exactly the same thing
