
The UK’s mortgage time bomb is ticking louder than ever
By the next election, housing will represent either a higher long-term cost or a damaged investment for almost everyone in…
ByInflation describes how much prices of goods and services are increasing (if they’re decreasing, this is known as deflation). In the UK the main measure of inflation is the Consumer Prices Index. The Office for National Statistics tracks the cost of living through the prices of items in a hypothetical “basket of goods” that includes everyday products and services. Here you can find all of our latest news, analysis and comment about inflation.
By the next election, housing will represent either a higher long-term cost or a damaged investment for almost everyone in…
ByClimate change is disrupting the food systems we rely on – and the free market offers no solutions.
ByHow corporate profiteering is making us poorer.
ByJoe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is laudable, but decades of decline cannot be reversed in a single presidential term.
ByAs inflation falls to 8.7 per cent, we look at whether Rishi Sunak is any closer to delivering on the…
ByInflation has fallen to 8.7 per cent, but prices – especially food – are still rising dangerously.
ByA fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
ByAndy Haldane would “press pause” on interest rates and stop telling workers not to demand pay rises.
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