Pre-Budget Report Thoughts & Expert Analysis
December 10th, 2009
Today’s pre-budget report presented by Chancellor Darling has taken most of today’s headlines, with politics seeming to overtake economics this time round, obviously with an eye on next year’s General election.
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Cancel That Party: UK Is Still In Recession
October 23rd, 2009
Probably best to put that champagne on ice, because the UK hasn’t exited the recession as had been expected. The latest GDP figures released show that the UK economy contracted by 0.4% between July and September.
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Graph: How Does This Recession Compare To Previous Recessions?
July 24th, 2009
ThisIsMoney points to an interesting graph comparing the current recession to some of the previous economic slumps.
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What’s The Truth About Our Economic Prospects?
July 20th, 2009
Lovemoney.com have produced a video featuring the opinions a few respected financial commentators to try to get to the bottom of whether we’re starting to come out of the recession, or whether we’re destined to suffer from it for some time to come. The conclusions they come to make for …
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Feeling Deflated?
April 21st, 2009
So, Britain has officially fallen into a period of deflation, for the first time in nearly 50 years, with the news that the Retail Price Index (RPI), has gone sub zero, to -0.4%.
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FSA Bank Reforms At A Glance
March 19th, 2009
The BBC has a run down of the FSA’s bank reform recommendations announced today, which are aimed at bringing us out of this horrible mess and prevent it happening in the future.
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Interest Rates Cut To 0.5%
March 5th, 2009
The Bank of England has decided to halve the UK interest rates to a new all-time low of just 0.5%.
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Poll: UK Interest Rate Decision Tomorrow
March 4th, 2009
Might be a little late for this poll, but what the heck. The Bank of England will make its monthly decision on interest rates tomorrow (Thursday 5th March), with rates currently sitting at the lowest ever rate of 1%.
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Recession In Graphics
January 23rd, 2009
Can’t get enough of our basic explanation of important principles effecting our economy?
Then you might also be interested in the BBC’s Recession Tracker – there’s nothing like making essentially dull concepts slightly more bearable with a few graphs and colourful pictures.
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Recession Watch: Recession Now Official
January 23rd, 2009
It looks like today could be the day that the U.K. economy officially enters a recession, when official data will confirm that we have had 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth, the standard recession definition.
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