Financial crisis

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• Bank of England apologises and orders inquiry into payment system crash – as it happened

  20 Oct 2014: House purchases hit as the system used to move billions of pounds between banks in the UK every day suffers a technical problem.

• ECB to spend €1 trillion on covered bonds to kickstart euro economy

  20 Oct 2014: The bank’s aim is to revive economies in the single currency zone that have been hit by a decline in business lending

• Why the decision on interest rates is held between the agony and ecstasy

  19 Oct 2014: Larry Elliott: Upbeat figures on growth, unemployment and inflation are cancelled out by what’s happening to real wage growth, productivity and real interest rates

• Why the eurozone’s woes have become the world’s problem

  19 Oct 2014: Larry Elliott: The explanation for the plunge on global financial markets comes down to one word: Europe

• The US justice divide: why crime and punishment in Wall Street and Ferguson are so different

  17 Oct 2014: Matt Taibbi was the scourge of Wall Street who called Goldman Sachs a ‘vampire squid’. Here, he argues that the failure to jail crooked bankers has its flipside – a war on the poor

• Eurozone crisis: interactive timeline

  17 Oct 2014: Bailouts, riots, recession - key events in the five years of the eurozone crisis

• Europe in turmoil: five years of economic crisis

  17 Oct 2014: Greece’s admission in October 2009 that it had a huge black hole in its finances triggered five years of bailouts, market turmoil and protests

• Financial systems: failing in the west but coming soon to a village near you?

  Guardian Professional, 16 Oct 2014: The financial crisis showed that developed world banking models are not indestructible, should they be used in the global south? Richard Kozul-Wright reports
  

• Fears of triple-dip eurozone recession as Germany cuts growth forecasts

  15 Oct 2014: Anti-austerity movement gains confidence as largest economy suffers from falling industrial output and geopolitical crises

• Stalled pay growth leaves average UK worker £5,000 a year worse off

  15 Oct 2014: Real-term fall in wages since 2008 means pay now 20% below where it should be, Institute for Policy Research report says

• Bank of England’s rate rise looks a way off as it misses inflation target

  14 Oct 2014: Nils Pratley: Bank chief Carney may have to write to chancellor as price of oil falls and supermarkets try to cap price of food

• From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich

  14 Oct 2014: Our fascination and frustration with this era’s wealthy 1% is nothing new. They have always been with us. How do they think, operate and make their money? By John Kampfner

• JP Morgan leads purchase of £2.7bn mortgage bundle from UK banks

  14 Oct 2014: 27,000 customers of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley will have their mortgages transferred across

• Stock markets volatile again as economic fears grow - business live

  13 Oct 2014: Rolling business and financial news, as European and Asian markets continue to be pummelled

• What kind of ‘war games’ is George Osborne playing in Washington?

  13 Oct 2014: The UK chancellor is joining the US treasury’s Jack Lew and other finance bosses to take part in a simulated banking crisis, designed to test our preparedness for another crash. But can there be any winners in this game?

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