ECONOMICS

Practitioner views on the impact of the Autumn Statement:

• James Bullock examines the enforcement and compliance issues;
• Tony Beare considers the impact on multinational corporations;
• Peter Vaines examines the private client perspective;
• David Whiscombe on the impact of the chancellor’s announcement on SMEs;
• John Hawksworth provides an economic perspective.

Mark Carney, the new Bank of England governor, has only been in the job for a few weeks. But he is already in a battle to convince the markets of his strategy, David Smith reports.

The government's public deficit reduction programme has stalled. Only growth will get it back on track - and four years of a 0.5% bank rate, a 25% sterling depreciation and £375bn of quanitive easing have not done the trick, David Smith reports.