Jack Peat

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE).

He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author.

Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Shocking: Six million Brits believe they will never be debt free

Millions of Brits are facing a never-ending road to financial recovery, with one in eight believing they will never be debt-free. That’s according to new research which reveals a growing reliance on credit has led to the highest debt levels in recent history. The average person with debt is in the...

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Brexit job crisis: Exodus or exaggeration?

Speculation that a Brexit financial services job crisis could be in our midst have been downplayed after HSBC became the latest bank to change its warning of an exodus. The Bank of England this week released a warning that up to 75,000 jobs could be lost in financial services following Britain's departure...

Populist politicians are “weaponizing trade”

Populist politicians are weaponizing trade to the determent of the global economy, a new book has claimed. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly becoming a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. Although trade, wars and foreign policy have been interwoven throughout...

Exclusive: Britain’s prisons have become a revolving door for offenders

Britain's prison have become a revolving door for offenders because they're too overcrowded to work as effective forms of rehabilitation. In a scathing interview with The London Economic former prison officer Paul Ward said prisons "do not rehabilitate the vast majority of offenders", merely acting as a way of "keeping people out of...

London escapes in under an hour: The Black Boy, Oxford

Isn’t London Marylebone a wonderful train station? Buried among the charming terraced houses of Lisson Grove and a stone’s throw from Lord’s Cricket Ground and the famed Madame Tussauds it is probably more famed for being one of the stations on the Monopoly board than being a major London terminus....

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