Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
A sunny weekend in the UK is a rather sobering reminder of what we are all missing and would rather be doing as the pandemic rages around the world. Several things are becoming apparent. One is that we do not know when it will end, or the number of lives that will be lost in …
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As a wise sage once said: forecasting is very difficult, especially about the future. But maybe we can discern some trends that will at least help to determine the direction of the decade ahead, whilst acknowledging how little we can ever truly predict. Few people back in 2010, for instance, would have thought that in …
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Income: 19s,8d Expenditure: 18s,8d Result: Happiness said Micawber If only life was that simple. But looking at the UK’s financial balances can yield useful information about the build-up of excesses in the real economy. Recent figures from the ONS show that the UK’s household saving ratio – defined as their total expenditure relative to disposable …
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