Topic: Gordon Brown

Europe and U.S. face 10 years of slow growth: UK's Brown

DALIAN, China (Reuters) - Europe and the United States could face 10 years of slow growth and high unemployment if a global solution for the euro zone debt crisis is not implemented soon, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday."Unless ...

Gordon Brown joins World Economic Forum

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has been appointed unpaid chairman of a new policy group at the World Economic Forum, the organisation announced on Friday.The WEF, which organises the annual meeting of global business and political elites in Davos, said Brown had ...
No I'm no Billy Joel and have tried to put a jolly face on after all this financial misery that has descended on us all. You don't have to be a Chartered Accountant or a banking whiz to realise that when Mervyn ...
With all the skill and abillity of the captain of the Titanic, Alistair Darling has finally steered us out of the recession. It is not that Brown can be seen as a good judge of character, his love of Ed Balls easily ...
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are right about onething: Why the UK?s recession was deeper and ourpublic finances are worse than most other developed nation is a question theyare less quick to address. Is the economy going todouble dip, and (if not), ...

A Disappointing Recession

Frankly I?m disappointed with this recession. When it hit I was still cosy in my student bubble, drinking cups of tea and watching indifferently as the footsie index of shares plummeted. Oh don?t get me wrong, I?ve enjoyed plenty of Real conversations ...
The land down-under although thriving economically with only 5% unemployment is deeply in debt.We are about to get crushed under the burgeoning weight of the world financial crisis that begun and should have ended with the sub-primes. I hope Obama will listen ...
In the early summer of 2007, Britain was enjoying a golden economic spell. The country, under Tony Blair, had enjoyed 40 successive quarters of growth.. Along with other developed nations, Britain was plunged into a banking crisis that quickly sparked recession. Yes, ...

Tactical Briefing

The article, a piece of political satire, purports to be the text of a weekly memo sent to British prime minister Gordon Brown by a unit of Labour Party operatives specializing in disinformation and political dirty tricks. The paper comments on a ...
In this article the author comments on political aspects of the economic problems besetting the British economy in early 2009. The reaction to the global economic downturn expressed by Gordon Brown, the prime minister of Great Britain, is examined. "This is the ...
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