Duncan Weldon

Liam Byrne today spoke today at a Fabian event at Conference about the case for full employment, after he also published a pamphlet making the case. As Ian Lavery MP, chair of the Parliamentary Trade Union Group, writes in his introduction…

I’ve just got back from Ed Ball’s speech on the economy this morning at Thompson Reuters and haven’t yet had the time to fully digest all of the arguments. So what follows is more of an “initial take” on the macroeconomic aspects of the…

Ever since the failure of Northern Rock in 2007, it has been clear that the UK’s banking system is not working. A crisis in the banking system led to a collapse in GDP, a large rise in unemployment and the ballooning of the government’s…

After the longest double recession since the Second World War, the economy is growing again. Whilst a growing economy is obviously better than a contracting one, the UK is far from out of the woods. Two and half million people are out of…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters column Two month's ago Canadian owned Bombardier announced 1,400 job losses at it's Derby plant, following the award of the Thameslink rolling stock contract to German owned Siemens. At the time there was…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column The last few days have been traumatic. We've had scenes of absolute panic, much damage has been done and the authorities have absolutely failed to get a firm grip on the situation. I'm talking of…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters column We now know that the economy grew by just 0.2% in the second quarter of 2011, following stagnation in the prior six months this means that the UK economy has grown by only 0.2% in the past nine…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column An awful lot has happened in economic sphere over the past 4 years - the 'subprime crisis' of 2007 became the 'credit crunch' of 2008 which morphed into the 'Great Recession' of 2008-09, economic…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column The strongest economic case against the government's aggressive deficit cutting agenda is that it risks being self defeating - as demand is sucked out of the economy by falling government spending…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column It's been a terrible week for the chancellor, the government and the economy's prospects - the Project Merlin lending targets don't seem to be going well, the ONS has confirmed the economy's 6…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column Recently I've been listening to a lot of PJ Harvey. Whilst I've been a fan for decade or so she had dropped off my musical radar until the release of the new album, 'Let England Shake', earlier…

The Duncan Weldon Economics Matters Column Following speculation in recent days that Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) is about to step down from his role as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and contest next year's…