Shadow banking collapse would ‘put millions of jobs at risk’
Default rates are rising as businesses fail to refinance or repay their debts.Mr Benjamin said: “Private equity is particularly vulnerable...
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Stagnant Britain is becoming like France, says World Bank chief economist
His ambition to cut taxes is predicated on a need to get welfare spending down and increase public sector productivity....
Forlorn U.S. dollar sunset theses gather dust
One by one, scenarios of a dollar demise are getting batted away yet again.A source of currency market hand-wringing for...
Europe’s global plans all require money no one has – POLITICO
“The big risk is that we won’t have enough money at all for the green transition,” former Italian Prime Minister...
EU signals end of free money for poorer countries – POLITICO
“ has to be a long term development kind of approach; it has to involve local and regional partners,” the...
Fraud-busters swoop on Greek contracts involving €2.5B of EU recovery funds – POLITICO
Alleged bid-rigging The complaint by European Dynamics was transferred to OLAF, which sent it to the EPPO for investigation for...
Fate of Thames Water to be decided by Chinese banks
Thames was plunged deeper into crisis last month when its owners refused to honour a pledge to pump nearly £4bn...
Our economic model is bust. Being a services superpower is not enough
You can’t buck the market, Margaret Thatcher liked to say, and she was right. You can’t buck the market, you...
Risk of ‘lost decade’ as EU countries face economic cliff edge – POLITICO
Southern European economies were mired in long recessions after the eurozone crisis in 2009, with public debt and unemployment soaring...
Soaring interest rates are the real reason Britain has a debt problem
Debt interest being such a large factor as it is now is far from being a new phenomenon. During the...
