The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a new report that suggests the stagnation of wages for poor and middle class families could have been a...
Efforts to mitigate the risks of financial chaos within the banking sector have been insufficient, a report published on Tuesday concludes. The report published on Tuesday...
The former US secretary of the Treasury who sat in office when the housing bubble burst in 2007/08 has warned that the world is making the...
Can the lessons learned from saving the financial system be used to help us overcome poverty? Michael Metcalfe says yes, and in a fascinating TED talk...
Following the 2008 financial crash, there have been calls for a radical restructuring of the economy. But just how should this new system be organised? Nicky...
Jeremy Leggett is a leading advocate of clean energy. At a recent Forum for the Future event, he gave an impassioned call to arms for renewables....
Lord Turner, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has condemned what he calls “debt pollution” within the UK economy. Delivering a lecture in...
Which group in society has done more harm to our economy, society and the environment over the last 30 years? Is it the poorest or the...
US investment bank JP Morgan has reached a settlement agreement with federal prosecutors, after it was accused of ignoring warnings over fraud crimes by former trader...
The Co-operative Bank is to face two separate investigations into its near-collapse, which will be carried out by two of the UK’s financial regulators. The Financial...
Ninety-seven per cent of financial services firms believe not enough has been done to prevent a future financial crash, a report has revealed. The study, which...
The answer to the headline of this piece is, at the moment, no. But it’s the wrong question. The current investment risk is systemic. Sustainability means...
Most commentators seem to agree that a return to ‘back to basics’ banking is needed if we are to avoid the kind of speculative bubbles that...
Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management ponders whether our efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change are too late. This piece originally featured in...
It is almost five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but only now are we seeing the first stirrings of something that was almost universally...