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How we define a recession assumes relevance when we are heading for what looks like a depression.
Three years ago they laughed when I forecast a depression. Economists were emphatic: governments had learnt the lessons. By …
Gordon Brown is orchestrating a Big Lie. He wants to hoodwink people into thinking that he is not responsible for what the Governor of the Bank of England now admits will be a “prolonged” crisis. …
For 18 years, investors hung on his every word. As Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan could move markets. A slight inflection of the voice, a hint of this or that, and the …
Fresh from their heroics as saviours of the West’s banks, the Daring Duo are making a bid for another accolade – the Brits who saved the global economy.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will tell …
At least $45 trillion will now be wiped off people’s wealth and trigger a decade-long depression.
Fred Harrison released his forecast during a Press conference at the Foreign Press Association, London. His estimate is based on …
Now that the West’s banks are bailed out, the cupboard is bare and the politicians are running for cover. The consequences for the rest of us are horrendous. Now the real trouble starts.
Following the financial …
When Rowan Williams and Dr John Sentamu attacked the plutocrats the story ripped around the world.
The Archbishop of Canterbury quoted Karl Marks, and The Archbishop of York condemned the ‘bank robbers’. The archetypal story ticked …
Gordon Brown is the real villain, not his scapegoat: the short sellers. These traders sell shares they do not own, hoping to pocket a profit. This is now blamed for destabilising the banks, and the …
The night Joanne Rowling is included in the new years honours list the champagne socialism will flow. Isn’t it fitting that the country’s best selling author found her audience whist Great Britain was run by …
Out with the old world, in with the new. Laws are now being sanctioned in the US to transform the market economy into a perverse form of state socialism, in which taxpayers will bear the …
To call the Prime Minister a liar is unedifying. And yet, what am I to do when faced with Gordon Brown’s claim that he is going to “clean up the financial system”?
He threatens to deal …
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the US has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
“In the US and many other countries, the too-big-to-fail banks have become even bigger,” Stiglitz said in an interview overnight in Paris. “The problems are worse than they were in 2007 before the crisis.”
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The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitable and religious income streams. Since he stepped down from office in 2007, his financial affairs have been described by observers as “Byzantine” and “opaque”. The Guardian is now launching an online competition offering a prize to the person who can shine the brightest light on those financial structures.
Blair has a commercial consultancy, called Tony Blair Associates, plus jobs advising a US bank and a Swiss insurer. He has a multimillion pound book deal. He also has a charity, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, and another called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. But much of the income, which includes charitable donations from other sources, has been funnelled through a structure called Windrush Ventures No 3 Limited Partnership. Our contest asks: what is Windrush?
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The Renegade Economist team presents an opportunity to learn what’s about to happen in the domestic and global economy, and …
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