Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
As 2018 draws to a close, we reflect on a year that’s marked 10 years since the financial crisis and consider the impact of the policies taken to deal with the crisis on the UK’s economic position a decade later. More than 10 years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the success of the …
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I was reminded of a Dionne Warwick song recently and the lyrics resonated with me: ‘What the world needs now is love sweet love, / It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of, / What the world needs now is love sweet love, / No, not just for some but for everyone,…’ If …
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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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