Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
Latest figures show that UK productivity fell back in Q1 to the levels previously seen prior to the financial crisis in 2008. Quite frankly, it’s shocking to see that productivity hasn’t grown at all in almost a decade, and that we’re actually producing a bit less now per hour than we did then. The broad …
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“It 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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Is the honeymoon period over for the UK economy? The release of new UK GDP figures on Friday shows a slowing of growth from 0.7% in Q4 2016 to 0.3% in Q1 2017. It’s not come as a big shock. Indeed, what has been more surprising is that growth has remained high for as long …