Claims of ending austerity ring hollow, unless we do away with the 'household' fallacy The single greatest masterstroke of the …
Financial Crisis, Global Situation
Campaigners hand RBS giant card to mark tenth anniversary of bailout
London, UK, 12 October 2018 - Research and campaign group Positive Money have this morning delivered a ‘birthday’ card to RBS admonishing …
Average UK household lost at least £23,000 in decade since financial crash
10 Years On campaign launches tool allowing public to calculate how much they’ve lost out since 2008 crash Analysis comes …
10 Years On activists take to Threadneedle Street
On Sunday 9th September, 10 Years On from the financial crisis, activists descended on the City of London to declare major bank branches and …
10 Years On: why has so little changed since the financial crash?
As the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers approaches, the Financial Times’ chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, …
Polling: 10 years after the financial crisis, the British public still don’t trust banks
66% of Britons don’t trust banks to work in the best interests of UK society 72% believe banks should have faced more severe …
10 Years on and we’ve had enough
The ten-year anniversary of the financial crash is fast approaching. For many of us, life has got worse in the last 10 years. The banks got …
Regulation to the rescue? 5 problems with ring-fencing, Basel III, and competition in the banking sector
Length: 6 minutes Technical Read On Wednesday 4th July, I was invited to speak at the Westminster Business Forum as part of the event …
New powers for the Bank of England to support banks – but who will benefit?
The winds of change are blowing for the Bank of England. Hot on the heels of a report for the Labour Party arguing for reform of the Bank’s …