Wonga is dead but exploitative lending will only end when we solve the cost of living crisis
Wonga is just one symptom of a broken economic model.
Wonga is just one symptom of a broken economic model.
Ireland, Europe’s poster child for austerity, has slipped back into recession, and the country’s 2012 GDP has been revised sharply lower from +o.9 per cent to just +0.2 per cent.
The UK economy did not enter a double dip recession at the beginning of 2012, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
IPPR North researcher Lewis Goodall reflects on the 2012 local election results in Northern England.
Alex Hern rebuts the FTs claim that the low growth the UK is experiencing is due to matters outside Osborne’s control.
Joe Coward writes about the real ‘squeezed middle’, and details how it could take until 2020 for their income to reach the level it was in 2001.
IPPR North report on the growing economic split between the north and south of England; while the former may be recovering, the latter is stagnating – or worse.
The economy has done even worse than Osborne’s critics on the left feared – and now we all have to pay the price.
Cormac Hollingsworth reviews Ed Balls’s Labour party conference speech, and analyses what it means for Labour’s economic policy over the next four years.
Today, US 10-year government bond yields traded below a critical 2% yield level, a record low – the west has entered a period of stagnation.