By: Billy Ehrenberg

Billy Ehrenberg is a Data Journalist and Content Developer at City A.M. He can be contacted at billy.ehrenberg@cityam.com. He is particularly passionate about data visualisation and telling stories with numbers.

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The UK’s net migration estimates have been revised up by 57 per cent

March 19, 2015

The government's plans to cut immigration are in tatters, after a report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) upped its estimates of the number of people moving to the UK. It predicts the influx will provide a boost in tax receipts and a fillip for potential output growth. The government initially promised to cut [...]
Was this video of Yanis Varoufakis giving Germany the finger faked?

March 19, 2015

It was the finger heard around the Eurozone: charismatic Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis appearing to flip the bird at Germany at a time when relations between the two countries couldn't be much tenser. Fears of a Grexit and demands for war reparations were still high on the agenda, and a flippant insult from a [...]
Budget 2015 interactive: Friends of the north? Unemployment mapped in every constituency

March 18, 2015

On budget day, George Osborne offered a hand to the north of England. The Conservative party would, he said, build a Northern powerhouse, and, in fact they had already started. Employment and jobs the chancellor added, have grown faster in the north of England than the south. ONS tables comparing the three months to the [...]
Budget 2015: No more paper tax returns, but how will the new digital system work?

March 18, 2015

Could the best thing from the 2015 Budget be the end of tax returns as we know them? In an announcement that had taxes as a central theme, George Osborne announced a new, digitised tax-returns system. From early 2016, gone will be the days of wading through paper tax returns – instead HM Revenue and [...]
OECD downgrades UK growth forecasts as it warns of storm clouds ahead for the global economy

March 18, 2015

UK downgraded George Osborne may have spent his morning extolling the progress of the UK economy, but the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has downgraded its forecasts for the UK’s growth this year, dropping its expectations to 2.6 per cent, from 2.7 predicted in the November 2014 report. The change brings the prediction [...]
Budget 2015 interactive: How much does each government department spend?

March 18, 2015

The 2015 Budget is upon us, with the government looking to make a big statement ahead of the next election. But where does the money go? Public sector spending is complex web of departments and expenditure. Using this graphic you can explore government spending by department (for the financial year 2013-2014) and see exactly where [...]
Budget 2015 vs Budget 2010: What are the vote-winners?

March 17, 2015

It’s almost budget day in election year, the time for the Conservatives to dangle a few carrots and warn of a few essential sticks to come. But how different it this year’s budget to the Labour party’s swansong back in 2010? There are a few key differences and some glaring similarities. Tax evasion Osborne’s last [...]
Eurozone core inflation beats expectations, but the bloc is still in deflation

March 17, 2015

It is hardly a time for unbridled celebration; the Eurozone remains in deflation at -0.3 per cent, but the core reading showed stronger than expected growth of 0.7 per cent year-on-year, compared to the 0.6 per cent analysts had been expecting. The data may lead to suggestions that Mario Draghi's quantitative easing (QE) programme is [...]
Who is Robert Durst? US billionaire says he “killed them all” during The Jinx filming

March 16, 2015

Billionaire Robert Durst may have uttered the five words that will end his decades-long flirtation with justice. During The Jinx, a six-part HBO documentary about him, Durst finds himself alone in a bathroom and mutters: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” He was arrested on Saturday. The “them” may refer [...]
Budget 2015: Six things we expect to see in Wednesday’s announcement from George Osborne

March 15, 2015

There will be no giveaways in the 2015 Budget, George Osborne has said. The Budget will be aimed at those who have worked hard all their lives, the chancellor said. But with no giveaways on the menu, what can we expect? Osborne told the BBC there would be “no giveaways, no gimmicks”. “Everything we do [...]

Aston Martin F1’s Stroll plays down questions over team principal Newey’s future

Aston Martin F1’s Stroll plays down questions over team principal Newey’s future

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