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George Bush: has made the US less immigration-friendly

Will inflation problem compound US misery?

Heaven knows, America's miserable now. With US unemployment up to 5.7% in July, and with US inflation in June running at 5.0%, life is no longer quite as comfortable as it used to be.

Inside View from London

A spoonful of Reaganism can help the inflation medicine to go down

Monday, 4 August 2008

Two weeks ago we learned that retail sales in the UK fell 3.9% in June and that Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, voted at the last committee meeting for an interest rate increase. This combination is rather intriguing.

The so-called Government Sponsored Enterprises ? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ? are seemingly in deep trouble

Inevitably, public funds must solve financial ills

Monday, 28 July 2008

One swallow doth not a summer make. Two summers of financial crisis, though, are enough to make the most robust of policymakers swallow hard.

View From London: Do people think Bank has lost all its magic?

Monday, 7 July 2008

Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, has told the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee that "a change in the prices of food and energy relative to other prices can't by itself produce sustained inflation unless we allow other prices and wages to rise at a faster rate".

Mounting dangers of banks' high-wire act

Monday, 16 June 2008

A few months ago, economic life was both complicated and, yet, so simple. The US housing market was collapsing. The UK housing market seemed to be heading the same way.

Rates gain now will save us pain later on

Monday, 9 June 2008

The inflation-targeting framework in the UK has seemingly been hugely successful over the years. Arguably, though, it's never really been tested in difficult times.

View from London: Poisoned chalice awaits presidential race winner

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

It's the economy, stupid.

View from London: No light at end of the tunnel

Monday, 7 January 2008

At the start of this new year I thought I might be able to offer a ray of economic hope. Regrettably, though, I can't. I have no desire to be another gloom and doom merchant, but I can do nothing about the facts in front of me.

View from London: When banking's in crisis no-one wants to be parted from cash

Monday, 17 December 2007

Imagine you're in Starbucks buying your café latte.

Can world economy survive US downturn? It already has

Monday, 26 November 2007

It may be a clumsy expression but "decoupling" has become a key part of the economic lexicon. The reasons are obvious; we can feel the chill wind of economic weakness from the other side of the Atlantic.

In pictures: Doing the business

  • Paul Doherty, Managing Director of Urban Art with Des Gartland, Manager of Invest NI's North West Regional Office.
  • At the launch of PricewaterhouseCooper's seminar programme are from left, Gerard Finnegan, from PwC's Derry office, Martin O'Hanlon, Dungannon and John Hannaway from PwC Belfast.
  • Former Miss Northern Ireland and Miss UK, Lucy Evangelista welcomes the news that Chilli's Grill & Bar at Victoria Square will open its first restaurant in Northern Ireland on August 28. The restaurant seats 250 guests, serves authentic Southwest American cuisine and features Northern Ireland's first Margarita bar.

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• View From Dublin: Give us serenity to see out economic turmoil

The famous prayer attributed to the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asks for the serenity to accept the things one cannot change, and the courage to change the things one can. Shrewdly, Dr Niebuhr also asked for the wisdom to know the difference.

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• Executive decisions vital to safeguard NI Water’s future

NORTHERN Ireland Water (NIW) is too important as a public utility to be a shuttlecock between uncertain political direction and aggressive regulatory intervention.

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• View From London: A spoonful of Reaganism can help the inflation medicine to go down

Two weeks ago we learned that retail sales in the UK fell 3.9% in June and that Tim Besley, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, voted at the last committee meeting for an interest rate increase. This combination is rather intriguing.

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