The momentum is clearly with Mr Romney, who is ahead in state polls and won the caucus there easily when he ran for president in 2008

"Nationalising RBS was a monumental error; no bank must ever bailed out again. Resolution and bail-in procedures to properly wind-down even the largest institution must be ready for use the next time there is a crisis. The government’s takeover of part of the banking industry in 2008 – combined with a stagnant economy and a flawed narrative about the real causes of the crisis &...

They were drawn in by the promise of change and are now saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt! College students voted en masse for Barack Obama in 2008, drawn in by his smooth delivery and promises of change that the American public could believe in. For many the 2012 presidential election will be a different story as this new Debt Generation faces the massive growth of the US national...

With increasing numbers of people’s minds turning towards May’s elections, now is a good time to dust off and update a post from 2008 about how people view their council… Improving trust in local government is important, and can’t be done just by focusing on improving services: that’s the verdict of State of trust: How

It is now four years since recession hit the UK. It took just over three years for GDP to return to pre-recession levels in the much milder downturns of the ‘70s and the ‘90s. Even after the Great Depression of the 30s, the economy had fully recovered by this point. By contrast, economic output in 2011 Q4 was still 3.8 per cent down on 2008 Q1. And it’s going to take a while long...

A leaked 2008 memo shows Lawrence Summers and other advisers had doubts over the practicality of a supersized fiscal stimulus

With only 510 UK civil servants being transferred to the private sector last year, compared with 1,140 in 2008, there is scepticism among the government and local authorities about outsourcing’s benefits

Tom Clougherty has an interesting graph up at the ASI blog, taken from this McKinsey report, of the movement in combined public and private debt for the ten biggest of the world's national economies, from 1990 until now. Follow either of the above two links to get a bigger and more legible version of this graph: Since 2008, of course, all have lurched upwards from wherever they were to quite ...

According to the latest Rasmussen poll...oh wait, this is a NYT/CBS Poll! WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Independent voters, who helped propel President Barack Obama to victory in the 2008 election, could be an obstacle in his bid for a second term in the White House, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll published on Wednesday. A majority of independent voters have soured on Obama’s pre...

Nick Clegg’s speech on Monday was a welcome contribution to the debate about the changes we want to make to our economy following the financial crisis. That the economic boom of the decade leading up to the 2008 bust was unsustainable is a proposition that hardly needs putting, yet the broader debate about how to