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Goverment actions haven't really helped the situation so far

It takes no more than an excitable blog to start a run on bank shares nowadays. Read

Housing market reports leave us all confused

Decline goes on and it keeps getting tougher

We've had a slowdown, not a recession, in the UK as credit crunch arrived, but it is getting worse, says Nevill Boyd Maunsell. Read

Whatever happened to 'no more boom and bust'?

First, congratulations to all those tactful delegates at the Labour conference who managed to get through without mentioning that our Prime Minister was the Chancellor who gloried in the claim that he had abolished “boom and bust”. Read

Lloyds TSB loses its 'boring' tag - and its value

I have an interest to declare. I am a loser. Some time ago I bought some Lloyds TSB shares – that is why I have never written about it before. Read

Why UK should avoid Lehman Brothers-style disaster

Birmingham Post Economics Editor Nevill Boyd Maunsell gives his views on the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank. Read

What does doom-monger Blanchflower know that we don't?

David Blanchflower, the American academic on the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, who regularly votes for an interest rate cut, is convinced that unemployment is about to take off mercilessly and turn our banking and mortgage crisis into a raging recession. Read

OPEC ensure the search goes on for alternatives to oil

OPEC forced up the price of oil by its shock announcement that it was cutting down on production. Read

If we're lucky, we might miss the worst of the R-word

Be thankful to the Stock Exchange’s computer for crashing on Monday, sparing over-excited dealers from the folly of chasing the Paulson bounce. Read

Housing market needs slow turnaround not a quick fix

Don’t gloat at Gordon Brown struggling to head off challenges for his job as he writhes and wriggles his way through of the TUC and Labour conferences. Read

Wimbledon analogy doesn't add up on ownership issue

Ownership doesn’t matter. So we were first told after the stock market’s “big bang” a quarter of a century ago, when the Exchange’s rule book was decreed to be a clubby, illegal restrictive practice. Read

What did Darling think he was doing in that interview?

Tell the difference between Sir Stafford “austerity” Cripps, “sunny Jim” Callaghan and our own dire Alistair Darling? Read

Home-owning democracy losing its appeal

Are we witnessing the end of Margaret Thatcher’s home-owning democracy? Well, not while the housing market is frozen solid so that it is all-but impossible for existing home-owners to sell. Read

Housebuilders counting on tax relief to come to the rescue

Huge losses do hurt at the time, but for those housebuilding companies that survive, they can generate wonderful tax losses for the future. Read

Manufacturers at lowest ebb since dot.com crash

You have to go back nearly seven years, to the aftermath of the dot.com crash, to find British industrialists so glum about their prospects for output. Read

Scramble to unwind the bets which left economy on the edge

There will be no nonsensical Christmas shopping rush to New York this year. The dollar’s great revival has made glossy shopping better value back home. Read

Gilts missing out as inflation marches on

In a commonsense world there is a mathematical link between interest rates and inflation. Read

Bank fears wage rises could destabilise inflation battle

“Wages don’t cause inflation,” cried the trade union conferences in the 1970s and ‘80s - now those very words are coming from Mervyn King. Read

Statistics don't give the true reality of inflation

After the cyclist's economy, now it is also good to be a vegetarian – and not the half-hearted sort of veggie, who says chicken doesn’t count. Read

Barclays’ new shares proving good value

The conventional reason why most bank shares are cheap is that nobody quite believes that they have come clean about all the dud assets lurking in their balance sheets. Read

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