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UK financial crisis

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Q&AThe Big Question
    Is Labour’s economic outlook too gloomy?

    This week, the FT asks readers whether Starmer’s pessimistic tone is unsettling UK business

    Montage of images. Rachel Reeves on the left, Kier Starmer on the right with a big white question mark in between them
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    People are worried about more ‘Liz Truss moments’

    Don’t take everything on Truss

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Stephen Bubb
    Why we can’t afford to ignore charities

    The voluntary sector offers a cost-effective path to public service reform

    King’s School, Canterbury
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Liz Truss and the LASH

    Does a not-very-new paper vindicate the ex-PM?

    Liz Truss, former British Prime Minister, speaks at a podium during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. She is wearing a red outfit and the background is a vibrant blue.
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK economy
    Britain is now a beacon of stability — in five charts

    The UK possesses a rare global commodity: predictability

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The long shadows of America’s growing debt

    A failure to acknowledge the US debt problem puts growth and stability on the line

    The US Treasury building in Washington
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    ExplainerUK employment
    Is Britain suffering from a ‘sick note culture’?

    Rishi Sunak has vowed to get people back to work but data indicates problems with the diagnosis — and proposed solution

  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Homelessness is a problem we could solve

    Despite growing numbers being affected, many of the solutions are known

  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Pensions crisis
    UK pension funds lost £425bn in year of bond market crisis

    Schemes registered a new quarter drop in asset value in 2022 driven by mini-Budget turmoil, finds Pensions Regulator

    City workers walk past the Bank of England
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Caxton Associates LP
    Hedge fund Caxton suffers in choppy year for bond markets

    Firm headed by Andrew Law finishes 2023 down 9% in its Macro fund

    Caxton Associates
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    Social affairs
    UK charities warn against scrapping mortality data for the homeless

    Government proposals to end publication of the statistics come as homelessness surges in England and Wales

    A pedestrian walks past the damaged tent of a homeless person
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    UK economy
    UK debt chief warns excessive borrowing risks investor backlash

    Sir Robert Stheeman says Liz Truss budget shows fiscal policy must not be ‘divorced from reality’ of financial markets

    Sir Robert Stheeman stands in his office
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Gilts
    UK reliance on ‘fickle’ foreign investors a risk to gilts, says OBR chief

    Richard Hughes tells MPs there is a lack of information on the identity of overseas bondholders

    Richard Hughes
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Chris Giles
    The UK’s ‘official’ labour data is becoming a nonsense

    How can we make economic policy if the figures we rely on are problematic?

    People queue outside a job centre in England
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    Gilts
    Happy LDImageddon anniversary

    We go again

  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
    Bank of England
    BoE pushes to double liquidity requirements for money market funds

    Officials have recommended the £250bn sterling money market fund sector holds more easily sellable assets

    The Bank of England
  • Monday, 9 October, 2023
    Odey Asset Management LLP
    Odey to close wealth management business

    Move comes after the group’s eponymous founder was accused in June of sexual assault

    Crispin Odey, founding partner of Odey Asset Management
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Lessons from the LDI debacle

    The UK’s gift to the world one year ago was to give a technicolour example of what to avoid

    Kwasi Kwarteng leaves 10 Downing Street with a red folder
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Liz Truss mini-Budget fallout like swimming with crocodiles, says BoE’s top economist

    Huw Pill says dealing with market turmoil sparked by unfunded tax cuts was ‘not a comfortable experience’

    Kwasi Kwarteng unveiling an anti-inflation budget plan at the House of Common
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Soumaya Keynes
    Are bad vibes holding back the British economy?

    The question of whether trash talk really harms the country is not as mad as it appears

    A montage image of a lettuce beneath a stormy sky
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    FT live news
    News updates from July 25: Microsoft and Alphabet report rise in revenues, UK government faces £150bn bill to cover Bank of England’s QE losses
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    UK employment
    UK job support system failing unemployed and economy, says report

    Punitive approach taken by Jobcentre Plus is holding back workforce recovery after the pandemic

    A smartly dressed man walks towards revolving doors in a modern office building
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    US Treasury bonds
    BoE says one of the biggest risks to UK financial stability lurks in the US

    The Treasury basis trade is back baby

  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Jeremy Hunt’s plan is pragmatic but not bold

    Mansion House speech makes small inroads into Britain’s broad growth problem

    Jeremy Hunt dressed in a shirt and tie pictured sitting in his office
  • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    Labour’s plan will not transform Britain’s poor economic prospects

    The green energy blueprint is unlikely to be a Holy Grail that enables the UK to escape this long, painful period of stagnation

    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves in a white outfit at the lectern in parliament
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