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USA Reaches Its Debt Limit
The U.S. government hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit Monday 16th May. Running up debt at the rate of roughly $2 million every single …
Banks Angry at NS&I’s Unfair Competition (Conveniently Forgetting Their Own Massive Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies)
Banks are angry that the government's National Savings & Investments (NS&I) are providing savings products that beat inflation, …
Debt Will Hit £84,000 a Family in Four Years
Mortgages and credit cards are pushing borrowing to record levels. From Daily Mail on 22nd April 2011 "Families will be crippled by a …
World Bank: Food prices have entered the 'danger zone'
Rising food prices could "condemn a generation to extreme poverty and malnutrition", according to the Daily Telegraph on 14th …
Treasury Select Committee: British Bankers' Association Refuses to Speak
The Treasury Select Committee is a cross-party collection of MPs that has done a pretty good job of interrogating the banks. Interestingly, …
NEF's Response to the Vicker's Commission
Josh Ryan-Collins, one of the co-authors of our submission to the Independent Commission on Banking, has written on the NEF blog about the …
How the Dutch Treat their Banks
On March 22nd Jan Hommen, the chief executive of Dutch bank ING, announced that on second thoughts he would forgo his bonus because he and …
Osborne's Budget – A Critique (Guest Post by Ronald Rankin)
Ronald Rankin writes with the following critical review of George Osborne's budget. Note that these are Ron's views, and don't necessarily …