Larry Elliot

Banks issued bail-in bonds hoping pension funds would buy them, but hedge funds, private banks and retail investors have snapped them up.

Big banks, energy giants and internet multinationals won’t change their bad behaviour by themselves – they must be forced to play nice.

As Europe stumbles from crisis to crisis, it might be a good time for Cyprus to ditch the currency.

Bank of England policymakers have ordered British banks to make a more "honest" assessment of hidden losses on their balance sheets.

Whoever wins the US election between President Barack Obama and contender Mitt Romney will find themselves standing at the edge of a fiscal precipice.

The past decade has seen the end of cheap oil, the magic growth ingredient for the global economy since World War II.

Europe’s leaders are claiming victory in the eurozone crisis after agreeing to new deals that halve Greek debt.

If Athens reneges on its debts it will shatter the markets’ confidence in the eurozone project.

Recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s is weak, unbalanced and runs the risk of running out of steam the International Monetary Fund warns.

As deflation and depression loom, the United States could be at a historical turning point.

Monetary policy is being eased everywhere, with the expectation that the Fed will join Japan in having a policy rate below 1% by the end of the year.

Scroll the film forward a year. It’s January 2007 and time for Davos again. Only one topic of discussion interests the ”fat cats in the snow” (as Bono calls them) — that’s how on…

The story of Europe’s pampered cows is a familiar one but always worth retelling. Each head of cattle in Europe gets a subsidy from the taxpayer worth ,20 a day at a time when…

The G8 is taking a long, hard look at itself — and not before time. The meetings have been held every year since 1975 and real — as opposed to synthetic — triumphs have been few…

Air fares are up. Petrol prices are up. The leaders of the 2000 fuel protest in Britain have been making minatory noises. None of this was in the script a year ago, when United…