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Consumer confidence has been in constant decline for the last five months, and a further fall would have made a double-dip recession seem a very real prospect. However, a new survey suggested that the consumer confidence in the UK economy improved in August for the first time [...]

The blame game goes on over who is actually responsible for the worst economic recession ever since the Great Depression—the financiers who did such a bad job of managing risk or the regulators who failed to stop them.
However, the economics profession bears more than a little culpability. It provided the models that gave comfort to [...]

According to two measures published, it is indicated that the mood among UK consumers and manufacturers is brithter than expected.
Official figures showed that the shoppers defied gloomy projections from the nation’s retailers and flocked to the high streets in July, helping record a much higher than expected rise in sales volumes.
The Office for National Statistics [...]

Industry bodies and market research groups have played down the threat of sustained inflation on the high street. Over the last half year, people have experienced a pretty stable shop price inflation. Recently, there has been a slight increase in the food inflation. It is expected that in spite of the soaring prices for wheat [...]

China’s economy kept slowing down even as the CPI rose again in the last month. This situation intensified the debate on whether attempts to tighten policy have gone too far.
As efforts to calm the real estate market and cut energy consumption began to bite. As a result, the rate of increase in industrial production, fixed [...]

The debate on the need for further fiscal stimulus or quicker retrenchment has become too ideological, and too extreme. Underneath it, however, there is more agreement on the basic than may be apparent at first blush.
Although there is warring comments that have apeared in these pages, there is actually no necessary conflict between restoring fiscal [...]

The German economy grew by 2.2% in the three months to the end of June, showing the fastest quarterly growth in more than 20 years, the official figures. “These quarter on quarter growth ever recorded in the reunified Germany,” the national statistics office, Destatis, said. The main reason for the higher-than-expected growth was strong exports, [...]