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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.
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The real squeezed middle could stagnate for 20 years
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.
The south is on its way out of recession, but the north is stuck
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.
Osborne proved the doommongers wrong – the economy is even worse than we predicted
The economy has done even worse than Osborne's critics on the left feared - and now we all have to pay the price.
Balls’s speech gives Labour a solid economic foundation
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.
The West’s lost decade has begun
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.