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UK house prices have risen at their fastest pace in 17 years. 6 May 2021 Nationwide reports that UK house prices rose by 2.1% in April from the month before, the biggest jump since February 2004. Prices have gained 7.1% in the past year. The upswing should keep going, says Andrew Wishart of Capital Economics. Survey data from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows strong sales and limited stock for sale. Web searches for homes hit a six-year high last month.  This has been a boom like no other, says Roger Bootle in The Daily Telegraph. House prices fell in real terms during the ...

© Luigi Mistrulli/SIPA/Shutterstock Mario Draghi has a “grand plan” to transform Italy, says Hannah Roberts on Politico EU. The Italian prime minister wants to spend €222bn on a raft of projects, including rolling out high-speed internet, extending high-speed rail, “earthquake-proofing millions of homes” and improving the energy efficiency of public buildings. €191.5bn of the money will come from Next Generation EU, the EU’s landmark pandemic recovery fund. Another €30.6bn will come from extra Italian government borrowing.  The spending looks “well-targeted”, says Neil ...

‘Greed is good’ does not apply to Big Pharma coming to the rescue Our coming deliverance from this virus is at odds with Tories’ innate instincts on the role of self-interested individualism 4 April 2021 • 7:00pm The Easter weekend has seemed a suitable time to reflect on the interaction between human motivation and achievement. My thinking has been galvanised by a recent remark by the Prime Minister to a gathering of Conservative MPs. In an apparent echo of the “greed is good” quip of Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street, he said that the success of the UK’s Covid vaccine prog...

After a series of quiet years, the market looks to have regained its claws, posing headaches for government