Chris Giles

No magic pill for Britain’s economy

Hype over fiscal policy will detract from the rest of the IMF report

• Call for exit strategy on Help to Buy
• IMF pulls its punches in ring with Treasury

A more nominal view of the UK economy

If Carney is able to introduce this new thinking into the BoE, he might live up to expectations

• Savings rates hit by extension of FLS
• Osborne struggles to find game changer

Bank lending boost won’t turn UK round

Small companies account for less than a 10th of business investment

• Credit squeeze tightens on smaller companies
• Small businesses continue loans struggle

How to ‘plog’ the hole in our awful public finances

In the canon of economic horrors, the persistently large output gap is a form of purgatory

• Martin Sandbu A rainy-day fund
• RBS and Lloyds to raise extra £9bn

Osborne is too timid, not too austere

The view that austerity is condemning the UK to more stagnation is not supported by the evidence

• Spectre of stagflation haunts UK
• Martin Wolf Britain’s austerity is indefensible

UK’s official statistics cannot be trusted

That the ONS has not fought to defend measures of the public finances shows it to be supine

• Osborne faces Tory calls to help families
• Economy fails to ‘rebalance’

The five questions Carney must answer

The next BoE governor must live up to his rock star billing

• Print money to fund spending – Turner
• Transcript Interview with Lord Turner

Turner defends permanent money printing

• Chris Giles The five questions Carney must answer
• Print money to fund spending – Turner