The fate of Thames Water hangs in the balance, with the company on the brink of bankruptcy, it seems. It also looks likely to be the case that any restructuring of the company is not going to be...

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Nail technicians earn a measly £7 an hour for their work, well below the minimum wage, so they have tried to unite to push their prices up last week.

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Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.

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This is a fascinating article about how nail technicians are responding to the rising cost of living by collaborating to increase the price that they charge. Many of them appear to be earning under...

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The fate of Thames Water hangs in the balance with its parent company, Kemble, having announced that they are going to default on the interest payment on a loan on Monday and will be unable to...

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On 1 April 2024, the UK's National Minimum Wage (to apply to workers aged 21 and over) rises by 9.8% to £11.44 per hour. Torsten Bell at the Resolution Foundation has called the introduction of the...

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Unilever, the global leader in consumer goods, producing brands, such as Dove, Hellman’s, PG Tips and Domestos, has announced job cuts and an ice-cream sell-off in its strategic restructuring plan.

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Daniel Kahneman, the Israeli-American Nobel-Prize winning psychologist and economist, has passed away at the age of 90. His work has transformed our understanding of human behaviour and, from a...

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The Resolution Foundation has released a study to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Minimum Wage - now called the National Living Wage - and concludes that it's one of the most successful...

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Nissan has announced that, in the face of intense Chinese competition, they are going to reduce the cost of manufacturing electric cars by 30%. They think that greater concentration on EVs, battery...

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Here is the link to the 1st of 2 knowledge organiser packs for Theme 4. It covers globalisation, trade and protectionism, exchange rates, international competitiveness, and poverty/inequality. This...

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You wait a while for one example of surge pricing to come along, and like London buses, along comes a second too. This time, it's tourist attraction owner Merlin Entertainment is planning to adopt...

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A heatwave in Western Africa, where many of the world’s cocoa beans are produced, is pushing up the prices of chocolate Easter eggs this year.

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Next month sees the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the National Minimum Wage, although it's now called the National Living Wage, and this article looks at what it's achieved.

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Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching an investigation to the pet medicine pricing practices, particularly those owned by big corporations because it looks as if pet owners are...

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A historic moment: for the first time since 2007, Japan has raised monetary policy interest rates and they're no longer negative. Rates have gone from -0.1% to between 0.0 and 0.1% in response to a...

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The Economics Observatory considers how to increase UK productivity growth so that wages and living standards can grow more quickly. The article argues that a ‘long-term strategy’ is needed to...

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The Competition and Markets Authority are looking into the proposed £2.5bn Barratt takeover of Redrow, concerned about the impact that it's going to have on an already fairly concentrated sector.

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Starting next Monday (25th March), we will be running daily revision livestreams for A-Level and IB Economics students. Our main focus is for students pushing towards the top grades.

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