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Ed Conway

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Economic horror show is reaching its climax

First published in the Telegraph on 19 March 2009 In the horror movie that is the UK recession we are rapidly approaching the climax. Those early scenes when blissful ignorance turned to trepidation and then suspense are over. The ghastly face of this ordeal has emerged from the shadows. It

This is how depression looked in the 1930s; Politicians are posing rather than acting

First published in the Telegraph on 12 March 2009 No-business meetings, John Kenneth Galbraith called them. They sprout in the wake of a crisis like weeds in scorched earth, nourished by the overwhelming sense that Something Must Be Done. Men gather, they sit in a room, they look pious; they

If you see green shoots, it's time to watch out

First published in the Telegraph on 26 February 2009 It is that time of the year. The frost is starting to give over, the cold weather is abating, the days are lengthening, and before long the leaves will be sprouting on the trees. That’s right: it’s green shoots

RECESSION BRITAIN It's bad - but it's worse for everyone else

First published in the Telegraph on 19 February 2009 Perhaps in the end it all comes down to the Great British psyche: the subconscious yearning to be the underdog, the knee-jerk reaction that prompts us to say “no” when we mean “yes”. For whatever reason, from the earliest throes of

So, just how bad will it be?

First published in the Telegraph on 11 February 2009 You say depression, I say recession. Depression, recession, depression, recession – what difference does it make? Given that everyone from the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and his former adviser Ed Balls to the head of the International Monetary Fund have admitted that

There is no alternative Desperate measures to deal with the financial crisis are the only way to avoid a prolonged recession, insists Edmund Conway

First published in the Telegraph on 9 January 2009 Time for a controversial statement: the economic medicine might just be working. The Government and the Bank of England’s drastic attempts to rescue the financial system from collapse and the economy from a depression could actually succeed. This is, it

I’m partly to blame for the recession

First published in the Telegraph on 5 January 2009 Daddy, what did you do in the credit crunch? As we sit around the embers of the financial system it is time I got something off my chest: I must take some responsibility for the economic crisis. This may come as