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Banks & financial markets • 04 Sep 23
Why did the global financial crisis of 2007-09 happen?
Banks & financial markets • 13 Apr 23
Why did Credit Suisse fail and what does it mean for banking regulation?
Prices & interest rates • 22 Feb 21
How has Brexit affected the value of sterling?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Mar 23
Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail?
Banks & financial markets • 28 Sep 23
Why did Lehman Brothers fail?
Banks & financial markets • 13 Aug 20
How is coronavirus affecting the banking sector?
Banks & financial markets • 25 May 23
How has the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected global financial markets?
Recession & recovery • 16 May 22
Russia’s 1998 currency crisis: what lessons for today?
Nations, regions & cities • 24 Jan 22
Scottish independence: what are the big economic questions?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Sep 24
How did Ireland recover so strongly from the global financial crisis?
Prices & interest rates • 12 May 22
How does inflation affect the economy when interest rates are near zero?
Banks & financial markets • 06 Oct 22
Is fintech disrupting the banking sector?
Banks & financial markets • 14 Jun 21
Dogecoin: what is it and does it have any value?
Pensions, savings & investment • 26 Feb 24
Is gold a safe haven for investors?
Families & households • 02 Mar 23
How does the housing market affect financial and economic stability?
Banks & financial markets • 18 Oct 23
How will artificial intelligence affect financial regulation?
Banks & financial markets • 05 Jan 21
Are Bitcoin and other digital currencies the future of money?
Pensions, savings & investment • 03 Nov 22
How does inflation affect asset prices?
Prices & interest rates • 26 Jun 23
When will UK inflation return to the Bank of England’s target of 2% a year?
Banks & financial markets • 15 Oct 20
How is coronavirus affecting the insurance industry?
Prices & interest rates • 25 Sep 23
What’s happening to UK inflation and interest rates?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Jul 23
Dark trading: what is it and how does it affect financial markets?
Pensions, savings & investment • 10 May 21
Does the stock market reflect the economy?
Nations, regions & cities • 17 May 24
How would dollarisation affect Argentina’s competitiveness?
Inequality & poverty • 28 Feb 23
How does the housing market affect wealth inequality?
Productivity & growth • 16 Jan 24
Boosting productivity: why doesn’t the UK invest enough?
Banks & financial markets • 08 Nov 22
The birth of inflation targeting: why did the ERM crisis happen?
Lessons from history • 27 Apr 21
What were the economic consequences of Irish independence?
Lessons from history • 21 Jun 21
Are we about to experience another Roaring Twenties?
Banks & financial markets • 31 Jan 22
What would the currency options be for an independent Scotland?
Lessons from history • 11 Apr 22
How has inflation been fought in the past?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Feb 23
What does the latest rise in interest rates tell us about the UK economy?
Banks & financial markets • 24 May 21
Are we in the middle of a tech bubble?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Oct 22
How important is the City to the UK economy?
News • 30 Sep 22
What’s happening to the UK economy?
Banks & financial markets • 07 Sep 23
Swiss banks now and in the global financial crisis: is this time different?
Lessons from history • 25 Jul 22
Sterling crisis: what are the historical precedents?
Business, big & small • 04 Mar 24
What is crowdfunding and how is it helping small businesses in the UK?
Families & households • 28 Jun 23
What’s been happening in the UK’s housing market in the first half of 2023?
Banks & financial markets • 19 Jun 20
How do changes in asset prices affect the real economy?
Lessons from history • 23 Jun 23
Why can economic forecasts go wrong?
Energy & climate change • 11 Oct 21
What are the likely costs of the transition to a sustainable economy?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Jun 22
Why are cryptocurrencies crashing?
Business, big & small • 12 Apr 21
Should companies be allowed to buy back their own shares?
Lessons from history • 05 Sep 23
What can we learn from banking crises of the past?
Banks & financial markets • 11 Jan 22
Should central banks develop their own digital currencies?
Banks & financial markets • 10 Dec 21
Why has the price of Bitcoin risen/fallen in the past day/week/month?
Banks & financial markets • 28 Nov 22
Fiscal and current account deficits: what threat to UK economic stability?
Banks & financial markets • 13 Oct 22
What can happen when economic policy-makers lose credibility?
Aid & international development • 06 Sep 20
How will coronavirus change the global microfinance industry?

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