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Category: GDP

Posted on 25th April 201825th July 2024

Is a UK recession on the cards?

UK economy still in growth mode

Based on the post-war record of UK economic expansion, we may be about to experience a sharp slowdown (see chart A). Latest figures show that the UK grew by 0.4% in the final quarter of 2017, down by 0.1% from an earlier estimate of 0.5%. In the year as a whole, the UK economy expanded …

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Posted on 24th November 201725th July 2024

Was this a Brexit Budget in Disguise?

Was this a Brexit Budget in Disguise? Trevor Williams, TWC.

This was the first Autumn Budget, and a bit like the climate one typically gets at this time of the year the economic outlook in it was a bit gloomy. Because of assumptions about lower productivity – in 16 of the last Budgets it has been forecast to return to its long-term rate of growth …

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Posted on 16th June 201725th July 2024

A tale of two cities – is the future revolution or evolution?

Euros and Pounds

β€œIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it …

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