New national report on poverty By Hannah Aldridge and Tom MacInnes On 01 December 2011 Our latest Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion Report shows that the Government’s anti poverty strategy cannot succeed without the creation of millions of jobs. Worryingly, the... Read More
Bad news - households are paying off their credit card bills By Peter Kenway On 30 November 2011 Back in October, the text of the Prime Minister’s speech to the Conservative party conference called upon households to pay off their credit card debts . By the time he came to deliver the... Read More
United States sector balances over five decades By Anthony Lord and Peter Kenway On 29 July 2011 Analysing the US sector balances shows not only a huge budget deficit but unprecedented and equally problematic corporate and overseas surpluses. The surpluses or deficits of a national... Read More
The ‘balance-sheet recession’ hypothesis and the UK By Teodor Todorov On 30 June 2011 Does the balance sheet recession experienced by Japan after its property bubble account for the rising UK corporate savings since the tech bubble burst in 2001? At least until recently, the... Read More
The relationship between the corporate surplus and NFC domestic investment and net FDI in the UK By Teodor Todorov On 23 June 2011 Does the rise in corporate savings since 2001 reflect the fact that UK companies have been creating and acquiring assets abroad rather than creating them at home? Whereas the latter is counted... Read More