Recruiters have reported a marked increase in vacancies for construction jobs across the UK, indicating a tentative rebound in activity in a sector that has recently endured sluggish growth. According to the latest figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation ...
Britain’s manufacturing output has slipped into reverse gear for the first time since 2016, triggering fresh alarm over the health of one of the economy’s core industrial pillars. According to the industry body Make UK, activity among manufacturers fell sharply ...
The UK’s slowing labour market is fuelling concerns that the economy could be drifting towards a recession, according to the Resolution Foundation. The influential think tank reports that a 0.5 per cent drop in employment over the year to January ...
Britain’s youngest workers are facing a tougher jobs landscape as businesses react to higher employment taxes and a looming rise in the minimum wage by cutting back on hiring. Fresh data from HR services firm Employment Hero, which tracked 105,000 ...
Homebuyers across England who miss the March stamp duty deadline are in line for a silver lining: a decade-high selection of available properties this spring. According to the property website Rightmove, the number of homes on the market is now ...
British Airways has long been the target of customer ire—complaints about service standards, outdated technology and, most recently, contentious changes to its loyalty programme are far from rare. Yet the carrier, part of the FTSE 100-listed International Airlines Group (IAG), ...
Boom, bust, repeat. The Fed fuels bubbles, and now we’re watching them pop. Mark Thornton joins Scott Horton to dissect the economy’s next moves. ...
Belief in the fairy tale known as Modern Monetary Theory not only is endemic in US academic and government circles, but is also making headway in Great Britain. We are being forced to learn all over again the lessons of ...
By their nature, free markets promote harmony between people and increase overall standards of living. This view is radically different from the ones promoted by Marxists who believe that only “class interests” matter. ...
International organizations like the EU and UN are creations of states and serve the states’ elites. We can’t “improve” them or make them more “efficient.” ...