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Ed Conway

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The last throw of the dice - now comes judgment day

First published in the Telegraph on 12 October 2008 As the sun sets tonight, so begin the longest few hours the financial world has ever known. We will wait in nervous silence as the time ticks steadily on towards 1am – judgment hour for the world economy. That is the moment

Dithering will make Britain the sick man of the global crisis

First published in the Telegraph on 5 October 2008 Here they come – the credit crunch cavalry; here to sweep us away from all this economic misery. In they waft from the five-star hotels and embassies of Washington, carried aloft on a ribbon of dry ice and dollar bills. The crowd

The next decade could be our own 1930s

First published in the Telegraph on 27 September 2008 For the first time in as long as I can remember, I find myself on George W. Bush’s side. It’s rather lonely. The US President has been wrong about so much during his eight years in office that it

Yes, we're in for a tough time, but it's not the end of the world

First published in the Telegraph on 1 August 2008 Contrary to the received wisdom, life does not grind to a halt in a recession. It didn’t in the early 1990s and it won’t this time around. Yes, I know that house prices are falling at the fastest rate

Fasten your seat-belts: things will get worse

First published in the Telegraph on 11 June 2008 It had to happen sooner or later. We have an economic disaster that cannot be blamed on Gordon Brown. No, not the collapse of Northern Rock, which the Prime Minister wrongly tried to attribute to problems in the American sub-prime market.

History is repeating itself, to the bitter end

First published in the Telegraph on 15 May 2008 The twilight years of Labour governments are always like this: the pound in freefall, the economy sliding towards a possible recession and the public finances out of control. And the ultimate bill left in the hands of households, blameless in every

Tighten your belts: this is going to hurt

First published in the Telegraph on 11 October 2007 We Britons tend to import stuff. It won’t have escaped your notice that the vast majority of things you buy in the shops these days – whether it’s trinkets, televisions or toys – comes from foreign climes. To this long list,