British pensioners and those who rely on savings for income are not feeling too festive this christmas after the Bank of England reduced interest rates, earlier this month, to levels not seen since

Edinburgh's Festival Fringe is to be provided with a short term financial support package of £250,000 from a group of key funders to tackle cash-flow problems.

One of Scotland's leading solicitor estate agents forecasts that the housing market will start to show the first signs of recovery when the Bank of England levels out interest rates.

Edinburgh's concentration of financial services companies means that it will be one of the first cities after London to feel the chill of the credit crunch, according to a new survey by accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young.

The Guardian newspaper's chief economics and finance journalist Will Hutton lays out the implications of "China's century" for the West in The Writing on the Wall: China and the west in the 21st century.

In spite of a particularly rainy Summer and the credit crunch, pedestrians were out in force in Edinburgh's city centre over the summer with footfall figures increasing by 17 percent on the previous quarter according to a new report from Edinburgh City Council.

As part of the Edinburgh Lecture series Dr Linda Yueh, author of Globalisation and Economic Growth in China, talks about ties between the "the birthplace of modern economics" as expounded by Adam S

The National Business Awards for Scotland 2008

In July this year I was asked to be a judge in the National Business Awards for Scotland,

A 10 foot, bronze statue of one of the most famous thinkers of the Edinburgh Enlightenment, Adam Smith, was unveiled yesterday outside St. Giles Cathedral.