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IMF chief backs down on Tobin tax

In a boost to Gordon Brown's campaign to force a so-called Tobin tax onto the international policy agenda, Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the annual CBI conference that the proposal was interesting and should be considered. Strauss-Kahn poured cold water ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  G-20,  Dominique Strauss-Kahn,  Timothy F. Geithner,  White House

Don't despair – Gordon Brown may be on a winner

It's 10pm on 6 May 2010 and the polls have just closed on election night. The news begins with a sensational item. Nick Robinson says that a BBC exit poll shows that a last-minute surge by Labour has left the result in the balance. If the exit poll is ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: BBC,  Nick Robinson,  David Cameron,  Gordon Brown,  Margaret Thatcher

CBI boss Richard Lambert's memo to Gordon Brown: when you're in a fiscal hole, stop digging

Richard Lambert is head of the CBI at Centre Point, London Photograph: Sarah Lee Richard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London's Centre Point, excavation work is under way on ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Richard Lambert,  Sarah Lee,  Alistair Darling,  George Osborne,  Digby Jones

Public finances analysis | Larry Elliott

Alistair Darling's £175bn prediction for the budget deficit isn't going to be too wide of the mark. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Let's start with the upbeat stuff. Lower interest rates and a slower-than-feared increase in unemployment are clearly ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Alistair Darling,  Bank of England

Modest rise in high street spending

Spending in Britain's high streets rose modestly last month giving a boost to government hopes of a return to economic growth in the last three months of the year. Data from the Office for National Statistics showed that low interest rates and rising ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Office for National Statistics

Bubble trouble: rise in asset prices adds to fears for recovery

Traders in Sao Paulo's futures and commodities market. Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP The din from the commodity pits on the Chicago exchanges is growing louder. Estate agents in Kensington and Chelsea say they can't meet demand for £1m-£1.5m homes. Wall ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, HEATHER STEWART, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mervyn Allister King,  Bank of England,  Ben Bernanke,  Alan Greenspan,  Nouriel Roubini

Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner | Book review

It's 2005 and America is booming. House prices are up, unemployment is down, growth is strong. Alan Greenspan is at the controls and all is right with the world. All the big economic problems have been solved.Cue the publication of Freakonomics, a ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Steven D. Levitt,  Stephen J. Dubner,  Alan Greenspan

TUC backs Tobin tax to pay for bank bailouts

With Downing Street pledging to flesh out plans for a social contract between the banks and the public in the forthcoming pre-budget report, the TUC said a 0.05% transaction charge (Tobin tax) on instant sterling transfers between UK financial firms ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, JILL TREANOR, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Brendan Barber,  HSBC,  Gordon Brown,  International Monetary Fund,  G-20

Green home makeover will cost up to £15,000, says climate watchdog chief

Lord Turner said 'more of a whole house approach' is required if carbon emission targets are to be met. Photograph: Rex Features The head of Britain's climate change watchdog predicted today that households will need to spend up to £15,000 on a full ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lord Turner

House prices rising at fastest rate since 2006

Britain's estate agents today report the most widespread surge in house prices since the pre-crash days of late 2006, with cheap money and a shortage of properties creating boom conditions in parts of the country. In its monthly snapshot of the market, ...

From LARRY ELLIOTT, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Robert Green

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