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...St Bart’s had once served coffee, but stopped because the management could not attract enough business, one of the group lamented....
...Nicholas Barr: Yes, but at a cost in terms of output growth. RayBarrell: Inflation will have fallen to a reasonable level by the end of the year....
...“Continued Covid lockdowns in China, along with the co-ordinated US and IEA stock releases, are fuelling the capitulation in oil markets,” said Bart Melek, head of commodity strategy at TD Securities....
...In popular culture, small-town America is generally cast in one of two moulds: either as a cosy haven, such as in the novels of Nicholas Sparks, or as a place to flee (consider the backwater hellholes of...
...Heaven and Hell of a less chemical nature are surveyed by Bart D Ehrman in his history of notions of the afterlife (Oneworld RRP£20/Simon & Schuster RRP$28, April)....
...Bart van Ark, chief economist, The Conference Board The maturing of the business cycle, wage increases and especially the weak pound are adding to inflationary pressures in 2017....
...Bart van Ark, chief economist, The Conference Board Who knows . . .?...
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics If, as I suspect, the economy falters, tax revenues will decline relative to forecasts, hence fiscal headroom will be needed....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics Unlikely to be much of a change, whichever its direction Ray Barrell, emeritus professor, Brunel University, National Institute...
...Bart van Ark, chief economist, The Conference Board The UK will need to find a decent solution on keeping a managed flow of immigrants going....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics Growth will slow but it’s not clear how fast....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics More pessimistic than 12 months ago See above — Roadrunner — still running on confidence that will decline as the reality of Brexit...
...Bart van Ark, Conference Board About one-third of the strong growth rate in 2014 was the result of the “recovery bonus” from the crisis....
...Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics Yes — I would be VERY scared that the referendum might end up with UK withdrawal from the EU which would be bad to the point of being catastrophic....
...Bart van Ark, Conference Board On the basis of the most common estimates, the unemployment rate has already dropped below the structural unemployment rate....
...Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics More people than this year will feel some improvement, but many people still judge their living standard by where they were in 2007....
...Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics Whichever party or constellation of parties is in power after the election is very likely to relax somewhat the deficit reduction plans....
...Bart van Ark, The Conference Board The UK will most likely be the first economy among the mature economies to raise interest rates as the economy gradually returns to full capacity....
...All that has gone out of the window,” says Bart Oosterveld, head of sovereign ratings at Moody’s....
...British documentarist Bart Layton lays out the unfolding, accumulating madness. In the US, it gets madder each day or week. An FBI agent interrogates “Nicholas” and even she believes him....
...Professor Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics: Plan A has not been vindicated, as compared with a more phased approach to reducing the deficit....
...Professor Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics: Forward guidance will acquire more and more surrounding conditions, hence will become ‘softer’ guidance....
...Bart van Ark, Conference Board: It seems a bit early to cry victory as the austerity of last years will be leaving its marks on the economy for a while....
...Professor Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics: Upturn like the Nike ‘swoosh’. The upturn is accelerating very slowly....
...preventive medicine at the Wolfson Institute at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry....
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