IMF boosts Britain’s growth forecasts
The IMF has provided a rare bout of optimism on the UK’s economic outlook – but there’s a caveat.
The IMF has provided a rare bout of optimism on the UK’s economic outlook – but there’s a caveat.
Britain is firmly out of recession. But we shouldn’t settle for an economy that merely bumps along on the nursery slopes of positive GDP.
This is a good news story, with one important caveat.
Public sector bureaucracy grows every day and nobody knows what to do about it.
Neil and Jonathan talk to economic historian Duncan Weldon about Truss’s economic and political legacy and the still unanswered question of how to get more economic growth.
Warmer weather in June may have helped get consumers out spending again, particularly eating out and watching concerts.
Joan Robinson, following her teacher Keynes, suggested that we could purge capitalism of its instability by permanently capping interest rates at zero.
Speaking at Civic Future’s summit in Cambridge, US economist Tyler Cowen said he firmly believes we are coming out of the Great Stagnation.
When it comes to GDP, the UK lags behind most of G20 countries and the average Brit is £10K a year worse off than their US counterpart.
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