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Ed Conway

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The lucky generation were luckier than we thought

For the past 70 years or so, each generation in Britain could reasonably expect to be wealthier, at each stage in their lives than their parents. They became less and less reliant on inherited cash; they became more educated, were more likely to own their own home and could expect

The Autumn Statement: sound, fury, and a lot of hot air

It is perhaps fitting that the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement [https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/autumn-statement-2013] took place on a day which was dominated by news of storms and gusts. Rarely has a Parliamentary Statement been quite so full of hot air. From listening to the Chancellor reeling off

What's really going on around the UK economy - some unexpected answers

Which region of the UK is growing the fastest? Where are house prices least affordable? Where is unemployment highest and lowest? And whose earnings are rising the fastest? As economic questions go, they are more important than ever before, for a simple reason: Britain’s recovery is proving more divergent

Britain in record long-term savings raid

In this post-crisis era it’s not often one comes across economic statistics that genuinely surprise you. But tonight we at Sky News have reported one which most certainly did that for me. According to our analysis of figures from the Bank of England, carried out with the help of

Are British workers really missing out? The Treasury thinks not

Of all the economic phenomena of the past few years, one of the most perplexing (and worrying) is the breakdown in the relationship between economic growth and the earnings of actual workers. As the Resolution Foundation has pointed out [http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/blog/2012/feb/17/fraying-thread-between-pay-and-productivity/] , back in

Today's Bank of England move might mean lower interest rates for longer

Here’s a counterintuitive thought: might the Bank of England’s move today to clamp down on mortgage lending actually mean it ends up leaving interest rates at rock bottom for even longer? That may very well be the upshot of the panoply of new measures unveiled by the Bank

Alex Salmond's sums on the impact of independence may be closer to reality than Danny Alexander's

Though the Scottish White Paper on independence [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00439021.pdf] has now been with us for more than 24 hours, confusion still reigns. How can Alex Salmond claim [http://news.sky.com/story/1173661/scottish-independence-600-better-off-claim] that following independence each Scot would be £600 better