Economy 2008
A special newstatesman.com focus on the state of the economy in 2008
In Economy 2008
Flint: Property boom unsustainable
- By Chris Ames
- 04 July 2008
Housing Minister Caroline Flint concedes the booming housing market that Britain has enjoyed for more than a decade is "unsustainable"
Crash: The housing crisis is just beginning
- By Iain Macwhirter
- 05 June 2008
As Britain wakes up to the nightmare of negative equity, we are facing a housing recession far worse than that of the early 1990s. Iain Macwhirter has a warning: don't buy a house now, at any price. Just say no. You have been warned
No more lectures, please
- By Alex Brummer
- 29 May 2008
The Prime Minister took the credit for the good economic times. Now people expect him to shoulder some blame for the bad times
Time for universal free school meals
- By Sharon Hodgson
- 27 May 2008
Labour's Sharon Hodgson says universal free school meals are a vote winner and would boost the nation's health
Everything you want to know about the bank crisis
- By Iain Macwhirter
- 01 May 2008
As the financial crisis enters what the governor of the Bank of England has called a "new and dangerous phase" Iain Macwhirter has been looking at the big questions
Why the housing bubble finally burst
- By Alex Brummer
- 01 May 2008
Alex Brummer explains that it's the new homes that are the worst hit as housebuilders have stopped building until their are signs of real economic recovery
How the IMF found a new role
- By Alex Brummer
- 17 April 2008
The International Monetary Fund had few friends and not enough to do. But its prediction of the credit-based crisis finally has people listening
A Budget with looming shadows
- By Martin Bright
- 13 March 2008
There were no rabbits in his hat. Hanging over Darling's speech was the spectre of global economic uncertainty. Plus don't miss Donald Hirsch's analysis
It's still about child poverty
- By Donald Hirsch
- 13 March 2008
For ten years, Labour has been shifting resources to the least well off. Why are the poor still with us?
Also in Economy 2008
Darling in the hall of horrors
- By Alex Brummer
- 21 February 2008
Unflattering comparisons to certain predecessors have dogged the Chancellor's week. He is damaged, writes Alex Brummer, but not necessarily fatally
The people pay the price
- By Alex Brummer
- 24 January 2008
Combine the foolishness of American banks with the hesitancy of British ministers, and you produce a dangerous mix drawing the UK into a slump
New crisis, old solution
- By Peter Wilby
- 24 January 2008
Capitalism's failure finds the left without a plan
Was Northern Rock the worst of it?
- By Howard Reed
- 18 January 2008
IPPR chief economist Howard Reed ponders our economic prospects for 2008 as part of a newstatesman.com series
Heroin to a heroin addict
- By Martin Weale
- 15 January 2008
2008 has brought a wave of economic gloom but actually lower house prices and lower consumption would be a good thing, writes Martin Weale
Don't keep up with the Joneses
- By Andrew Oswald
- 14 January 2008
Once a nation has filled its larders is there any point in getting richer? Prof. Andrew Oswald on how economic growth doesn't make us happy
Car sales defy economic gloom
- By Hilton Holloway
- 11 January 2008
Autocar's Hilton Holloway kicks off newstatesman.com's look at the economy in 2008
A soft landing for house prices
- By Paul Samter
- 19 November 2007
Paul Samter, an economist at the Council of Mortgage Lenders, argues that house prices will flatten in 2008 but they will not crash.
UK house prices set to tumble
- By Jonathan Davis
- 19 November 2007
Chartered Financial Planner and housepricecrash.co.uk spokesman Jonathan Davis puts the case for why house prices will crash in the near future.
