So is that it for quantitative easing? That is the question the City is asking after the Bank of England chose to extend its printing money programme by “just” £25 billion
Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be cheerful
Banking analysis: The Government wants to create three new High Street banks to increase competition in the UK - and today it finally became clear what these banks might look like
Rebuilding Britain's banks: While most banking bosses stuggled to say the "s" word, the chief executive of Barclays, John Varley, has spent the last year saying sorry
After one expert on these pages argued $600 trillion market is big threat, a top risk manager responds
Economics analysis: The Government has long boasted that Britain is better placed to deal with the global recession than other major nations
Energy analysis: The decision by E.ON this month to abandon plans to build a new coal-fired plant at its existing site at Kingsnorth in Kent was seen as a huge victory for the Green lobby
Media analysis: An air of trepidation is hanging over The Guardian’s new offices in Kings Place
Media analysis: It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain responsibilities
There was a subtle but significant shift in the Silicon Valley universe just the other week. On 12 October, Arthur D Levinson — chairman of Genentech — resigned from Google's board
Rebuilding Britain's banks: When Britain's greatest comic writer PG Wodehouse penned Psmith In The City in 1908 there was more than a touch of the autobiographical about it
Energy analysis: Peak oil is the future time and place where the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction has been reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline and from where, it is said, the world implodes into global crisis, war and probably the eventual death of the planet
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