Financial Crisis

Making Capitalism more creative by Bill Gates

Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people — something that's easy to forget at a time of great economic uncertainty. But it has left out billions more.

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Is Capitalism dead?

As financial panic spread across the globe and governments scrambled to contain the damage, reality seemed to announce the doom of U.S.-style free markets and President Bush's ideology.

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Rethinking Capitalism’s Contours

A planned international summit on the financial crisis is turning into a debate over the future shape of capitalism, with European leaders favoring greater international oversight of markets, and U.S. officials preferring the current model of national regulation.

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Gordon Brown to warn Barack Obama on dangers of protectionism

Mr Brown will urge the rejection of "beggar-thy-neighbour protectionism that has been a feature in transforming past crises into deep recessions".

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Mandelson warns on protectionism

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has said protectionism would be a "huge mistake" ahead of talks to end strikes over employing foreign workers.

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Downturn will bring big fall in migrant workers, says CBI

The use of migrant labour in Britain will decline abruptly as companies face a sharp fall in demand for their goods and services, the Confederation of British Industry told MPs yesterday.

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Now is the time for a revolution in economic thought

Anatole Kaletsky outlines some of the unorthodox approaches to economics which conventional economists have ignored and which might have helped to avert the present crisis

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Trade gap narrows as demand for foreign goods slumps

The slumping pound did little to help British exports in December, but imports dropped sharply as the cost of foreign-made goods spiralled and demand slumped, resulting in the narrowest trade gap for one and half years and offering a sliver of hope for the economy.

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EU moves to prevent protectionism

Fears of increasing protectionism in Europe are overshadowing a meeting of EU finance ministers.

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David Cameron urges faith in Capitalism

Conservative leader David Cameron has said people's "faith in capitalism and free enterprise" must be restored despite the global downturn

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China exports at lowest level in a decade

Chinese exports dropped 17.5 per cent in January compared with the same month the year before, the biggest decline in more than a decade as the impact on the economy from the global slump gathered pace.

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Learn the right lessons from the Depression

This crisis is not a total failure of world capitalism and nothing will be achieved by a retreat into narrow nationalism

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RBS record loss means new £25bn public bill

The UK taxpayer is to inject a further £25 bilion into the Royal Bank of Scotland, the ailing bank revealed today, bringing its total bailout cash to more than £45 billion.

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EU ‘consensus’ to tackle crisis

EU leaders have ended an emergency summit in Brussels saying they are determined to avoid protectionist moves in response to the economic crisis.

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Will the G20 expand the role of the IMF?

It wasn't long ago that Gordon Brown wanted to downgrade the lending side of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and make it an independent economic watchdog instead.

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Nationalising British jobs

Migration restrictions are a bad way to fight unemployment in times of crisis. There is no evidence less immigration means less unemployment in the UK or anywhere else

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So much for capitalism

For two decades, in the 1980s and 1990s, China pushed forward a series of economic reforms that came at a vast cost, exceeded only by their vaster rewards. Now, as the financial crisis sweeps across the world, those reforms are going into reverse. It is a sign of how hard governments find it to shake off the habit of ownership.

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‘Big rise’ in illegal immigrants

The UK could be home to almost three-quarters of a million illegal immigrants, a study for London Mayor Boris Johnson suggests.

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The Future of Capitalism

The Financial Times have started a new series 'The Future of Capitalism'

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50 people who will frame the debate on the Future of Capitalism

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House prices ‘could fall by further 55 per cent’

House prices may fall by a further 55 percent and there is a "very real probability" that Britain will be bankrupted, a leading investment bank has warned in a private note to clients.

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Japanese economy shrinks 3.2%

Japan's economy shrank 3.2% in the final three months of last year, figures out today showed, confirming fears that the country is mired in its deepest recession since the second world war.

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China’s industrial growth slows as exports slump at record pace

China's industrial growth slid at the start of the year as exports slumped at a record pace, according to official figures.

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A guide to the G20

Read a quick guide to the Group-of-Twenty (G20) meeting in London, April 2009

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Britain showing signs of heading towards 1930s-style depression, says Bank

The country is displaying early symptoms of being trapped in a so-called “debt deflation trap” where families find themselves pushed further and further into the red every month, according to a Bank report published today.

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Recovery timing ‘depends on G20’

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has steered clear of echoing the chairman of the US central bank's prediction that the economic recovery will begin next year.

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Forests ‘facing a testing time’

World forests face the dual challenge of climate change and the global economic crisis, a key UN report says.

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Have your say - The future shape of Capitalism

Tell us what you thought of 'The future shape of Capitalism' event. Discuss the issues raised on the night by our panel.

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On eve of G20 summit, new blow to Gordon Brown

Ministers were struggling to maintain momentum for the G20 summit last night after it emerged that any spending decisions would be deferred to a later meeting, further narrowing the scope of this week's London talks, which have been plagued by divisions between European leaders and Gordon Brown.

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Barack Obama arrives in Downing Street for G20 talks with Gordon Brown

US president cheered by No 10 staff as he and wife Michelle arrive for discussions with prime minister

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New world order emerges from chaos

Slowly the shape of the world after the financial flood is beginning to emerge.

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