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Ed Conway

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George Osborne <3 OECD

George Osborne has a bit of soft spot for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Not because of the qualities institution’s most people usually associate with the OECD – its economic analysis, its social prescience, its capacity to help developed countries improve their infrastructure and welfare systems. He likes

Is there an alternative to the mortgage?

Why does buying a house involve taking out so much debt? OK yes, there is, of course, a pretty obvious answer to this: it’s incredibly expensive. Few Britons have a spare £245,000 lying around (the average UK house price as of September) so they need a little help

Growth, the Bank of England and the honey bee

Let’s start with the good news. The economy is recovering more convincingly than at any point since the financial crisis of 2008. And while this is hardly new news (the figures have been pointing that way for a while) the Bank of England seemed to confirm it today as

Everything you need to know about today's Inflation Report in three charts

As we all know, the Bank of England has said that it will not even consider raising interest rates until the unemployment rate has dropped beneath 7%. We now know that moment will come far sooner than expected. As you can see on this chart, in August, the Bank wasn’

UK property still a bargain for many overseas buyers

One of the big stories we’ve been covering recently is the enormous disparity in prices and house price inflation between London and the rest of the country. Now, this gulf has always existed – there are obvious explanations for why property should cost more in a capital city, where jobs

Developed world investment plummets to new low

[https://i1.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/OECDoutflows.jpg?ssl=1] The amount of cash spent by the developed world on overseas business investment dropped to the lowest level since comparable records began in the second quarter of the year, according to figures from the OECD.

Here's who the UK Government owes money to

[https://i0.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ukgovtdebt.jpg?ssl=1] We all know that the total amount of debt owed by the British Government has ballooned in recent years – from £220bn in 1995 to almost £1.4 trillion today. But who actually owns the debt?