Tag Archives: Bank of England

Red Farage adopts Left economics

By James Bloodworth | Published: March 15, 2013

Nigel Farage, generally considered to be to the Right of the Conservative Party, is advocating expansionist Bank of England policies, and “maximum employment”.

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Osborne under increasing pressure to move to the right

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 14, 2013

The chancellor George Osborne is coming under increasing pressure from tory back benchers and the governor of the bank of England to pursue a more right wing agenda.

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The coalition is in ‘growth denial’

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 13, 2013

The Bank of England is expected to downgrade its growth forecasts today while warning of more financial pain to come. As the graph shows, the growth trend in the UK economy has been downward since around the third quarter of 2010 – coincidentally, about the time George Osborne set out the coalition’s spending plans (20th [...]

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High inflation set to continue into 2014

By Dan Holden | Published: December 18, 2012

The stubborn nature of inflation stops the Bank of England from acting, pushes living costs further up and is seemingly ignored by the government.

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Bank of England throws in the towel on growth – where does this leave Osborne?

By Duncan Weldon | Published: November 14, 2012

The Bank of England appears to have thrown in the towel on growth with the publication of the latest Inflation Report, but where does this leave the chancellor?

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0% growth forecast highlights need for stimulus to promote employment, growth and spending

By Tony Burke | Published: August 9, 2012

The Bank of England’s latest warning that the economy has hit the buffers and will come grinding to a screeching halt later this year comes as no surprise.

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Fickle King could have approved a similar “textbook” stimulus package in 2007

By Katie Stanton | Published: June 15, 2012

Sir Mervyn King heralded the chancellor’s £140 billion stimulus plan but rejected a similar plan when Labour were in power in 2007.

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The Bank of England is blind to the financialisation of commodities

By Cormac Hollingsworth | Published: March 23, 2012

The Bank of England is blind to the financialisation of commodities, explains Cormac Hollingsworth.

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The Bank of England is like a lifeguard who’s afraid of rubber rings

By Cormac Hollingsworth | Published: March 1, 2012

Cormac Hollingsworth asks what use the Bank of England is if it’s afraid of one of the key tools in its arsenal

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In Defence of Quantitative Easing

By Tony Dolphin | Published: February 11, 2012

In the absence of fiscal stimulus, that is an injection of government spending, and with interest rates at rock bottom, the alternative to quantitative easing is mass unemployment. We have no choice.

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