Savage cuts have seen one in six financial services jobs disappear since 2008

Amid all the feverish commotion about cuts, it's easy to forget that it took the Tories until November 2008 to ditch Labour's spending plans - and, indeed, that it was barely a year ago when George Osborne first mentioned the c-word in public. Even David Cameron admits that this delay was his biggest mistake. It weakened his party's claim to foresight, and gave them less time to emb...

SPECULATION over the future of RBS sponsorship deals has been rife ever since the bank had to be bailed out by the UK government in September 2008.

A EU-World Bank analysis of the causes of the 2007-2008 food price crisis blames energy prices and financial speculators for the hikes, downplaying the role of biofuels and increased demand in developing countries.

Public spending watchdog Audit Scotland said 240 complaints were made in 2008-9, up 21 per cent on the previous year.

Revised figures reveal Scottish Borders Council stands to lose more than £3m from the Icelandic bank collapse in 2008.

After what appeared to be the economic collapse of Scotland's banking and financial services sector in 2008, there is new hope emerging that the worst is over and it is on

Still another recurrent argument from the Thurmond era has it that no judge should overrule the voters, who voted 52 to 48 percent in California for Prop 8 in 2008. But as Olson also told Chris Wallace, “We do not put the Bill of Rights to a vote.” Yup, quite, liberty and human

Former chancellor Alistair Darling describes how RBS was "a couple of hours" from collapse in 2008

"Befitting his ideology, Krugman has only one policy to propose, regardless of topic: Transfer more resources from the discipline and dynamism of markets to the inefficiency and cronyism of government. Government-run health care. Government-controlled banks. Government bailouts. High taxes. High spending. Krugman wants it all, just like in Europe (which, in 2008, he called "the comeback continent"...