Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Manchester today the chancellor, Alistair Darling, said pretty much everything you’d expect to hear from the man in charge of the British economy during these worrying times - tighter regulation of the banking industry, measures to stop this kind of crisis happening again, protection for savers, support for […]
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- More job losses as UK motor industry circles the drain
- VAT up, down, shake it all around
- Anger on the streets (and in the annual shareholder’s meeting)
- Only the women can save us now
- “Arg! We’re all completely screwed!” says Confederation of British Industry
- Unemployment benefits probably won’t cover the mortgage repayments
- “If we cut taxes, do you promise to start spending again? Please?”
- The psychology of confidence
- Interest rates slashed - your savings are now as worthless as your house
- Government abandons its own golden rules on borrowing and debt
- JKA on Economics: Where will it end indeed. UK Car sales, new registrations were down almost 40% in November. The problem is demand and even where there is demand, the
- ooopinionsss: How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!
- Lance: The goverment has introduced special legislation which means that you will get double the protection allowance if you have savings in two banks that m