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Just down the road from me there is a blue plaque commemorating the foundation in 1897 of that excellent organisation, The Distressed Gentlefolks’ Association, since rebranded as something more egalitarian. The gist of it was that ladies and gentlemen could become poor too when their circumstances changed but unlike the…

I'm not saying I don't like my job, but I think I'd quite fancy sitting on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) . Not for the money, of course – though a total compensation package of £163,700 per annum sounds decent. Nor even because I take an amateur's…

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"Was in the slow lane. Still in the slow lane. Will remain in the slow lane." The laconic words of Jonathan Prynn, the Standard's business editor, summarising (off the record but oh well) today's report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which forecasts that the UK will be…

On this episode of How to be a CEO we’re continuing our series looking at start-up success stories.

What sectors will thrive in the next twelve months?

New figures from the Harden’s London Restaurant Guide shows the number of hyper-luxurious restaurants, offering dizzying new levels of exorbitance, is on the rise.

If you want to annoy an economist, try mixing up stock and flow. This is a mistake commonly made even by business journalists (though not Jonathan Prynn, of course) when attempting to describe the value of large companies.