Ed Conway

Something pretty amazing has just happened: the interest rate on Irish government bonds (at least, the 10-year bonds we tend to focus most on) dropped beneath those on the UK’s. It’s the first time this has happened since late-2008, and raises a tantalising question: is Ireland now more

The Great Recession is over. In fact, it probably came to an end last year – possibly even before that. Now, I’ll admit that the above isn’t yet borne out by the official, or even unofficial, numbers. According to the Office for National Statistics, by the end of the

When George Osborne unveiled his Help to Buy scheme in last year’s Budget, there was a collective sigh around the City. Of all the lessons learnt during the crisis, surely the clearest was that mortgage guarantee schemes, such as the one the Chancellor was proposing to set up, could

It’s strange that in all the coverage of the AstraZeneca-Pfizer story, few people have seen fit to mention that AstraZeneca is not technically a UK-owned company. I’m talking not about the fact that it’s the product of a 1990s UK takeover of a Swedish company (many have

At various points over the past few years, I’ve been invited along to seminars to discuss the role of journalism during the financial crisis. The opinions expressed at such events tend to vary, from those who feel journalists covered themselves with glory during the Great Recession to those who

It’s tempting to see the story [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/property/article4078837.ece]of the £140m London apartment that just sold to a Ukrainian buyer as yet more evidence of the madness in the UK housing market. But while there is now little doubt that the