Three-quarters of all bank credit is still being gobbled by domestic householders to service mortgages and fund related consumption.
The Chancellor must be hoping that something will. A decade of sluggish growth on the Continent is hardly good for Britain’s prospects.
The challenge for regulators, businesses and politicians is: how do we react to the social and regulatory changes that this disruption presents?
Thatcherite on the economy and Europe. Macmillanite on housing and saving. Carswellian on governance – but lacking popular input on constitutional reform.
Why hammer the private rented sector so hard? The fundamental problem is supply. The fundamental solution should be to build, build and build.
Is it really “the economy, stupid”, now that the growth figures have decoupled from the polls?
The latter need to ask themselves: when did they become the thing they most hate in the world. When did they become LibDems?
By all means, politicians, cut red tape and prevent our exploitation – but please don’t do much more than that.
The Labour leader wants to spend his way to better employment figures – but can he?
When it comes to student immigration, the Lib Dem leader prefers Lord Heseltine’s thinking to David Cameron’s.
They should be removed from the Government’s target to reduce net migration.
Gloomy as the headlines may be, here are some reasons to look on the bright side.
Even in Labour’s “second tier” target seats, there’s an average 6.5 per cent swing towards the party. Still, these voters are pretty satisfied with Cameron.
Now it’s France and Germany whose economies are in trouble, not just the Southern nations.
The answers themselves raise more questions that only a subject matter specialist who understands the physical complexities of deep sea cabling can properly comprehend.