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...But James Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation think-tank, warned of a “rough justice on housing costs” for renters signing new contracts and many households renewing fixed-rate mortgages...
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Ray Barrell: Growth in the UK should be moderately positive in the next year....
...Bronwyn Curtis: Having been slow to raise rates, they are now at risk of tightening too much....
...Bronwyn Curtis: The Bank of England will underestimate the level of inflation....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chair at JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust: No....
...Ray Barrell: Field trials are uncommon in macroeconomics, but now we have one....
...The White Book , by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, Portobello, RRP£10 There are echoes of WG Sebald in this poignant meditation on loss by the South Korean author of the Man Booker International...
...Rain Newton-Smith, chief economist, CBI It all depends what happens in January....
...Elsewhere, the FT’s Robert Smith discovers that, as far back as 2012, HNA was willing to pay high borrowing costs to fund deals....
...Andrew Smith, chief economic adviser, Industry Forum A further rise in the national living wage will boost the earnings of the lowest paid again in 2018....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chairman, JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust My guess is that they won’t raise rates at all. I would like to see the bank rate raised by 0.25 per cent at least once in 2018....
...Bronwyn Curtis, chairman, JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust It seems unlikely that the UK will see a resurgence in productivity growth in the near term....
...Ray Barrell, professor, Brunel University London UK households care about what they earn, how much their house is worth and whether they have a job....
...Andrew Smith, Chief Economic Adviser, Industry Forum The world (ex UK) is enjoying a synchronised — and hence to an extent self-fuelling — upswing....
...Ray Barrell, professor, Brunel University London More optimistic than 12 months ago....
...Rain Newton-Smith, chief economist, CBI We expect CPI inflation to breach the MPC’s 2% target in mid-2017, and peak at 2.4% at the end of next year....
...Andrew Smith, chief economic adviser, Industry Forum Who knows? Trump is still very much an unknown quantity....
...“In the end,” said Bronwyn Curtis, from the Society of Business Economists, “it comes down to money....
...Bronwyn Curtis, Society of Business Economists I don’t expect a change in the monetary policy stance in 2017....
...Bronwyn Curtis, from the, Society of Business Economists It will slow by from 2.1% in 2016 to between 1.1% and 1.6% in 2017....
...“Planned spending cuts, particularly on welfare, over the parliament look politically difficult” said Andrew Smith, chief economic adviser to the Industry Forum....
...Andrew Smith, chief economic adviser, Industry Forum As all the evidence suggests that the economic benefits of immigration outweigh the costs, lower immigration will slow growth....
...Ray Barrell, a professor at Brunel University, said reducing public spending as a share of the total economy was always difficult....
...Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University and VA Research The UK economy remains too dependent on consumer demand and too reliant on foreign finance....
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