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  • Tuesday, 29 January, 2019
    UK politics opinion polls
    Interest in Brexit compromise grows among UK public

    Polls indicate British opinion could yet be won round to May’s deal or Norway option

  • Tuesday, 29 January, 2019
    Brexit
    MPs line up against no-deal Brexit ahead of vote

    Analysis of who backed amendments and made public statements highlights problems for May

  • Wednesday, 11 April, 2018
    FT AlphavilleKate Allen
    Will Big Data kill the Census?
  • Monday, 9 April, 2018
    AnalysisVisual journalism
    IMF shows poor track record at forecasting recessions

    Economic predictions presented as precise numbers are far from that in reality

  • Friday, 23 February, 2018
    ExplainerWorld
    Big issues in Italy’s election in charts

    Europe, immigration, tax and spending divide parties ahead of March 4 poll

  • Thursday, 30 November, 2017
    UK politics & policy
    Why Northern Ireland needs to avoid a hard border

    Region’s food industry is most at risk from barriers after Brexit

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2017
    World
    Catalonia’s economy fuels independence push

    Region has lower unemployment and higher foreign investment than rest of Spain

  • Thursday, 31 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Filmmakers inspired by financial calamity

    The Big Short and Inside Job were among the best reviewed movies about the crisis

  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Five charts showing how millennials are worse off

    Americans who came of age around the crisis have fallen behind previous generations

  • Promoted Content
  • Saturday, 26 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Bank pay rebounded faster in the US than Europe

    CEOs still enjoy great riches, but MBA graduates increasingly prefer other careers

  • Friday, 25 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Low rates had little benefit for ordinary Americans

    Loose monetary policy led to share buybacks that enriched mainly the wealthy

  • Thursday, 24 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    What happened to the ‘too big to fail’ banks?

    While some have fallen down the global league table, many are larger today

  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Credit crisis led to a bonfire of the acronyms

    Securitisation created weapons of financial destruction and has not fully recovered

  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    The big reason banks are safer than a decade ago

    Institutions rely less on wholesale funding of the kind that seized up in the crisis 

  • Monday, 21 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Dealing with the effects of one bubble creating more

    From stocks to SWAG and from bonds to bitcoin, many assets look overpriced

  • Saturday, 19 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    US stock valuations have been inflated by the Fed

    Financial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversary

  • Friday, 18 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    US government still props up its mortgage market

    Reform of housing finance is largest piece of unfinished business from the crisis

  • Thursday, 17 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Over $9tn of bonds trade with negative yields

    How central banks created the most curious legacy of the financial crisis

  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2017
    Martin Wolf
    Nothing like this has happened in 323 years

    Financial Times columnists pick their charts of the credit crisis on the decade anniversary

  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
    Jamil Anderlini
    China’s economy is addicted to debt

    Beijing’s response to the financial crisis caused asset bubbles it has yet to tackle

  • Monday, 14 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Whatever happened to the global savings glut?

    The pattern of cross-border financial flows has changed since the crisis 

  • Saturday, 12 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    How income inequality has shifted since the crisis

    Differences between, and within, countries vary dramatically

  • Friday, 11 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    The credit crisis did not lead to deleveraging

    The debt just moved around

  • Thursday, 10 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    The long and winding road to economic recovery

    Some countries still have not regained the ground lost in the Great Recession

  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
    FT SeriesThe financial crisis in charts
    Who was convicted because of the financial crisis?

    Hundreds have been prosecuted — just not necessarily the ones the public wanted to see

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