Australia should keep lifting interest rate and deliver stage-three tax cuts, IMF says

Agency says it expects a ‘soft landing’ for the nation’s economy with risks ‘skewed to the downside’ as part of annual review

The Guardian view on mass unemployment: inflation will drop without this pain

Editorial: Policymakers are wrong to think rising joblessness and a recession are a price worth paying

Gavin Williamson could face investigation over ‘I now own him’ payment as chief whip to Tory MP, committee told – as it happened

Parliamentary commissioner for standards hints Gavin Williamson is being investigated after claim he gave cheque to MP with financial problems

Austerity 2.0 is not a necessity – it’s a choice. Why won’t the media say so?

There was a clear bias towards the City in coverage of the 2008 crash. We can’t afford for it to happen again, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Take care with energy use but support will continue, says Sunak

Prime minister also urges City to curtail bonuses and says he is keen to reduce reliance on food banks

Sunak gives strongest hint he will protect pensions triple lock

PM, also under pressure to raise benefits and public sector pay with inflation, claims ‘compassion’ will be at heart of autumn statement

What would a Tory budget that is actually good for the country look like? Here’s an idea

Public investment, tax justice, carbon pricing, uprated benefits – the possibilities are endless, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Monday briefing: The UK has slumped into recession once more – how will Sunak and Hunt respond?

In today’s newsletter: Days before the Chancellor’s budget on Thursday, the government has an energy crisis, rising poverty and strikes to handle – and it could get worse

Jeremy Hunt ‘accepts picture’ of NHS on brink of collapse, but efficiencies must be found

Chancellor warns health service has to help fix UK’s broken economy despite facing ‘massive pressures’

Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement

Chancellor also warns of severe cuts to services as he prepares for his biggest test in his new role

Truss? Brexit? Covid? Who is really to blame for the Tories’ ‘fiscal hole’?

The succession of PMs have all spoken out on who or what has caused the state of UK finances. They’re all partly right, but conveniently miss out one or two other key reasons

Don’t be taken in by that £50bn ‘fiscal black hole’. It’s just a dodgy Tory metaphor

Drastic public sector belt-tightening is not an economic necessity but a political decision

Autumn statement: which tax rises and spending cuts are most likely?

The potential impact of the chancellor’s various options and which ones we think he will pursue

The Guardian view on the UK economy: old folly or new folly

Editorial: Next week’s autumn statement will show if Jeremy Hunt has learned anything from George Osborne’s and Kwasi Kwarteng’s failures

Herman Daly obituary

Pioneering ecological economist who foresaw the catastrophic effects of unlimited economic growth