Poverty, Debt and Inequality

The government-engineered housing boom will hold back the recovery

The UK housing market has become detached from the real economy. Far from ‘levelling up’, measures by the Treasury and the Bank of …

Lloyds Bank’s plans to become a private landlord highlight how banks and institutional investors treat housing solely as an asset to squeeze …

Responding to today's Budget statement, Fran Boait, executive director of Positive Money said: “Today’s Budget is simply a …

On 15th September hundreds of activists, economists and journalists gathered at the Bank of England to say "Enough's Enough". 10 years on …

Responding to the Bank of England's decision to raise interest rates to 0.75%, Fran Boait, executive director of Positive Money …

Responding to Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunliffe's warnings about household debt this morning, Fran Boait, executive director of …

Nearly a decade of austerity has put the UK economy in a sorry state. Wages have grown at their slowest rate since the Napoleonic Wars. …

Ever since the Bank of England embarked on its £445 billion quantitative easing programme and cut interest rates to record-low levels, it’s …

An analysis of new wealth data by Positive Money illustrates the disproportionate gains between the richest and poorest in the era …