As Positive Money likes to point out, quantitative easing (QE) is a policy almost without historical precedent. With only scant and rather …
Housing
Philip Hammond’s other deficit
Philip Hammond delivered yesterday’s budget in the context of the worst decade for real wage growth in living memory, and at time when …
Have rising house prices reached their limit?
UK house prices are “stagnating”, having declined in the last three months; it's the first quarterly fall since being on the cusp of the …
Banks are lending to buy houses, not build businesses
The days of the credit crunch can seem to be well and truly behind us. 2016 was the second successive year when bank lending to the economy …
Wealth ‘halved in a decade’ for people in their 30s: What’s money got to do with it?
A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that people in their early 30s are half as wealthy as people of the same age …
“Property better investment than pensions”, says Bank of England’s chief economist – but what about the housing crisis?
The chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has recently claimed that property is a better investment for retirement than a …
RT: Govt policy exacerbates house prices (Video)
"We have an economy that relies on house prices getting higher and higher whilst wages have been stagnating and savings depleted. One of the …
Join the Action Resource Team! Next event Sat 23rd July
On April 16th the Action Resource Team went to The People’s Assembly against Austerity march for Health, Homes, Jobs, Education. …
The Affordability of UK Housing: Hello Debt for Life…
New data shows that growth in house prices is outpacing growth in wages. However, reports suggest that low interest-rates are making housing …