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Mervyn King

July 2023

  • Mervyn King wearing a blue suit

    Bank of England risks recession with interest rate rises, Mervyn King says

    Warning from ex-governor adds to concerns about economy with Bank tipped to raise rate above 5%

December 2022

  • Advert for staff in a shop window in Keswick, in the Lake District

    The Guardian view on Britain’s missing workers: they may never come back

    Editorial: Half a million workers have vanished. Policymakers don’t seem to understand why

October 2022

  • Mervyn King in a raincoat

    Austerity could be more difficult this time round, says Lord King

  • Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey.

    The Guardian view on the UK’s financial crisis: a lot of blame to go around

November 2021

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    AO World boss may have overheated his electrical appliance targets

    Nils Pratley
  • Mervyn King called on central banks to show ‘humility’.

    Central banks have ‘King Canute’ theory of inflation, says former governor

July 2021

  • Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

    Bank of England ‘addicted’ to creating money, say peers

    BoE must be more transparent and justify use of quantitative easing, says Lords report

June 2021

  • A waitress serves drinks at tables outside a pub in Soho, London

    Business leader
    GDP rises and suddenly everyone’s afraid of the big, bad inflation beast

    Investors are obsessed with the idea of soaring prices, but a glance at the past decade shows there is not much to fear

April 2021

  • Mervyn King

    Central banks becoming hooked on stimulus, Mervyn King says

    Former Bank of England governor warns of risk of inflation as Covid lockdown measures are relaxed

October 2020

  • A worker cleans graffiti calling for ‘full furlough’ in Piccadilly Gardens, central Manchester

    Mervyn King says Covid furlough scheme may be needed throughout 2021

    Former Bank of England governor says government should ditch spending limits until crisis passes

May 2020

  • Mervyn King

    'Get a grip': Mervyn King warns of Covid-19 threat to UK economy

    Former Bank of England governor attacks government’s response to pandemic

March 2020

  • A young woman wearing a mask and gloves holds up a sign saying ‘Could you live on £94.25/week Rishi?’

    UK under pressure to offer urgent aid to 5 million self-employed

    Government urged to extend wage subsidies as cost of coronavirus crisis escalates

October 2019

  • A full moon rises behind skyscrapers at UK’s banking headquarters at Canary Wharf in east London.

    World economy is sleepwalking into a new financial crisis, warns Mervyn King

  • Larry Elliott in Washington

    Economics viewpoint
    The sluggish global economy needs to reform – and fast

    Larry Elliott in Washington

April 2019

  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    Mark Carney still stands taller than Brexit’s lost leaders

    William Keegan
    While his predecessor and proponents of no-deal vanish into fantasy, the governor is clear about the dangers we face

March 2019

  • Mervyn King was governor of the Bank of England 2003 to 2013.

    UK should leave EU with no deal, says former Bank of England governor

    Mervyn King says Britain could ease ‘dislocation costs’ with six months of planning

December 2018

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Mervyn King's call for no-deal Brexit fails to offer solutions

    Nils Pratley
  • Mervyn King

    Mervyn King: Theresa May's Brexit deal is like appeasement

September 2018

  • Protestors hold signs behind Dick Fuld as he takes his seat to testify at a House oversight and government reform committee hearing on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in Washington in October 2008

    Lehman Brothers collapse: where are the key figures now?

  • Mervyn King has blasted preparations for Brexit.

    Brexit: Mervyn King blasts 'incompetence' of preparations

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