Facebook is going public, but what is it really worth? This interactive calculator illustrates how variations in key assumptions can change the potential market value and share price of an IPO
Regional pay and teachers
If you were writing an economists’ manifesto, regional payscales would be one of the few items on which most agreed. The principle is pretty simple: why should a teacher be paid a king’s ransom in Southport, but starved in Southwark. …
Two thirds of deaths not counted
The latest World Health Organisation statistics report has thrown a light on the unglamorous but essential backbone of health policy – accurate death reporting. According to the report, currently only 15 percent of the world’s population lives in a country …
Green cars to drive down tax receipts
The rapid growth in greener, more fuel efficient vehicles will leave the Treasury with a £13bn shortfall in motoring taxes by the end of next decade, despite an anticipated 44 per cent jump in traffic. The predictions from the Institute …
The latest generation to enter the labour market is doing no better than those that came before, while living standards among people of retirement age are much higher than their forebears’
Tracking China’s currency
This interactive graphic shows changes in the present value of the renminbi