Britain’s coming house-price crash

Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

Sovereign bond yields are ringing some alarm bells about the UK’s economic and fiscal outlook

François Bayrou, the beleaguered French prime minister, has said that the 8 September confidence vote in parliament, which is expected to go against him and his budget proposals, will not decide “the

Issue of the week: trouble in the gilt ...

Pick of the week’s correspondence

What are wealth taxes? Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are