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Ed Conway

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Real Estate Nation

[https://i2.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/realestate1.jpg?ssl=1] No doubt you’ve already seen the rather extraordinary figures on the number of people who now work in real estate in the UK [http://leftoutside.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/the-horror-of-help-to-buy-construction-jobs-down-277000-estate-agents-up-77000/] . Well the chart

Proof that the euro crisis has not gone away

[https://i2.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ULC.jpg?ssl=1] If you’ve been following the euro crisis over the past few years, you’ll doubtless recognise the chart above. It depicts unit labour costs – a measure of how much it costs to produce a

Internet sales as a percentage of total retail sales

[https://i2.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/intsales.jpg?ssl=1] Internet sales as a percentage of total UK retail sales. From the Office for National Statistics’ latest retail sales bulletin [http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_327646.pdf].

The ugliest economic chart you'll see all day

[https://i2.wp.com/www.edmundconway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gdpperhourworked.jpg?ssl=1] Britain’s overall GDP may be improving, but in productivity terms the gap between where the UK is now and where its international counterparts are continues to widen. Full ONS report on this here [http:

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The catastrophic collapse in lending to UK households since the start of the crisis

Why do Britain's banks always win?

Why do Britain's banks always win?

Why is it that, even after the worst financial crisis in our history, after countless examples of wrongdoing and some flagrant examples of fraud, of blatantly excessive rewards for underperformance, we are still so reliant on our big banks? It is hardly a new question. Back in the wake of

Euro's make-or-break moment is looming

You have to hand it to the eurocrats of Brussels. The continent may be in economic turmoil; its biggest and most ambitious project is close to collapse and it is stuck in recession. And yet they still manage to engineer a month of relative calm so that they can enjoy