Category: The Budget
Trade credit row could turn nasty for insurers
The trouble with the sort of help the government announced in the Budget to help ease the pressures in the domestic trade credit market is that it suddenly alters people's expectations. With many businesses, especially in the retail sector, going...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 27, 2009 9:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)
I'm not the only one who sees the 1970s looming on the horizon
Despite one commentator's optimism in response to my predictions that we are heading for a decade of economic misery and industrial conflict on a par with the 1970s, there is plenty of expert opinion this morning lining up on my...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 24, 2009 9:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Budget points towards a decade of gloom and conflict
I've been trying to pick my way through the detail of yesterday's Budget statement to find some good news and have been getting ever more depressed as I do so. I have come to the conclusion that we are heading...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 23, 2009 9:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Darling shows he has run out of ideas
The initial reaction to Darling's Budget speech has to be that he has demonstrated that the government has now run out of ideas on the economy. He will score with left of centre voters for his attacks on high earners...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 22, 2009 1:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Budget: who will come out on top?
One of the most fascinating aspects of tomorrow's Budget Statement is going to be who will come out on top - Alistair Darling, George Osborne or Vince Cable?The Chancellor is obviously under huge pressure to deliver a package of measures...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 21, 2009 2:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
All Party Group tackles trade credit insurance
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance & Financial Services will be looking into the issues in the UK trade credit insurance market on Tuesday 19 May (11.30am, Committee Room 17, House of Commons) when the Association of British Insurers...
Posted by David Worsfold on April 29, 2009 5:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Budget shows we have too many politicians who are frightened of policies
Image via WikipediaMany - indeed most - commentators have quickly labelled yesterday's Budget as 'political' by which they mean it was more to do with the forthcoming General Election campaign than with the management of Britain's ailing economy. That seems...
Posted by David Worsfold on March 25, 2010 1:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
This will go down as one of the most controversial Budgets of modern times...but it could have been even more dramatic
Already George Osborne's first Budget is being marked out as one of the more controversial and dramatic of modern times. This is not unusual for the first Budget of an incoming administration - just look back to Gordon Brown in...
Posted by David Worsfold on June 23, 2010 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
100 days of the Coalition government. What has it meant for financial services?
Our first post-war coalition government has now lasted 100 days; not a great achievement in itself but a convenient moment at which to pause and consider its impact on the financial services sector.I thought it would provide an interesting perspective...
Posted by David Worsfold on August 15, 2010 5:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
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