This year, our annual chart on housing affordability shows quite a dramatic increase in the house price to earnings ratio, and unlike last year, mortgage affordability has also declined.
Chart of the Week: Week 29, 2014: Employment and Earnings
While the total level of employment in the UK continues to break records, real average wages are still declining steadily.
Chart of the Week: Week 28, 2014: UK Wage Differences
At the end of last week, the ONS released a report on how wages have changed over time, particularly for three cohorts born in 1954, 1964 and 1974.
Chart of the Week: Week 28, 2014: UK Wage Differences
At the end of last week, the ONS released a report on how wages have changed over time, particularly for three cohorts born in 1954, 1964 and 1974.
July 2014
The Middle East continues to polarise along sectarian lines with Isis’s announcement of the establishment of a caliphate – or new Islamic State. The leadership of this organisation appears to be highly sophisticated and a lot…
Chart of the Week: Week 27, 2014: UK Trade Balance
Trade deficit statistics have been even more volatile than usual recently, but the UK’s trade balance looks like it has been improving slowly.