Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsLatest: Cleaning company McBride hit by raw material cost surgeIntro: China’s exports beat forecasts in August, up 25.6%Trade accelerates despite virus and supply chain disruptionAnalyst: Christ…
Constructed Worlds, Group Beliefs and Narrative Consciousness
Three Simple Policy Heuristics – “The most important thing to understand is this: Harm ripples, kindness ripples. People you hurt go on to hurt other people. People who are treated with kindness become better people, or more prosperous people, and go o…
Weakest UK August car sales since 2013 as supply shortages bite – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsLatest: August car sales hit eight-year lowIntroduction: Car sales dropped last month, preliminary data showsGerman factory orders jump, thanks to shipbuilding demandUK labour crisis could last …
UK labour crisis could last up to two years, CBI warns
Lobby group urges action on visas for foreign workers such as drivers, welders, butchers and bricklayersWagamama struggling to find chefs at a fifth of its UK sitesThe labour crisis could last for up to two years, Britain’s leading business lobby group…
The west must engage with the Taliban and provide financial support
The gains of the past 20 years in Afghanistan will be lost unless we keep funding social infrastructureAfghanistan is on the brink of economic meltdown. Millions of people are going hungry. Teachers and doctors are going unpaid. The social infrastructu…
Inflation set to surge this autumn as Brexit and Covid combine
Worker shortages and problems with global supply chains together create ‘perfect storm’, say business leadersConsumers have been warned of an autumn rise in living costs from sharp increases in household energy bills and food prices, as Covid and Brexi…
US job creation slows sharply in August as Delta variant hits economy – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsEarlier:Latest: Wall Street drops as jobs growth stumblesUS jobs creation much weaker than forecast, just 235kAugust slowdown after over 1m new hires in JulyDelta variant hits leisure and hospit…
Brexit: food and drink exports to EU suffer ‘disastrous’ decline
First-half sales fall £2bn, says industry body, as barriers are compounded by staff shortagesExports of food and drink to the EU have suffered a “disastrous” decline in the first half of the year because of Brexit trade barriers, with sales of beef and…
Britons holidaying in UK give welcome boost to high street
Domestic tourism helped footfall in August hit highest level since start of Covid pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFootfall in UK high streets and retail parks last month hit its highest level since the start of the C…
Empty shelves are the only way Britain’s underpaid workers can grab national attention | Aditya Chakrabortty
If you don’t care about workers, a vicious downward cycle works – as long as you can get them. Then one day, you can’tIn the mid-noughties, I was economics producer at the BBC, working with the then economics editor, Evan Davis. He had just begun prese…