Hints and tips:
...Nicholas Megaw Will Novo Nordisk end the year as Europe’s most valuable company? Yes....
...George Buckley: We expect a short and shallow recession in the very near-term followed by a rather lacklustre recovery thereafter....
...George Buckley: UK recessions have typically been much larger than the 2 per cent we expect this time round....
...Nicholas Barr: As the economy picks up, cyclical unemployment will fall....
...George Buckley: Better off....
...George Buckley, Nomura Yes....
...George Buckley, chief UK economist, Nomura [I am] forecasting 2.8 per cent average weekly earnings growth in 2018 versus 2.3 per cent in 2017 as a whole....
...Nicholas Barr, professor of public economics, London School of Economics A small increase [in interest rates] is likely....
...George Buckley, chief UK economist, Nomura An improvement yes, [but] a resurgence is probably too strong a word....
...George Buckley, chief UK economist, Nomura Consumer spending growth should recover slowly after reaching a low point in the first half of 2018....
...George Buckley, Chief UK Economist, Nomura 1.5 per cent year-on-year, among the lowest in the G7 thanks to Brexit....
...George Buckley, chief UK economist, Nomura More pessimistic than 12 months ago....
...He repeats the joke of the US conservative writer, William Buckley, about members of that denomination, that “at most they believe in one God”....
...In the early 20th century, Tsar Nicholas II, a keen photographer, sent one of Russia’s leading photographic innovators, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, in a specially equipped railway carriage to create a record...
...Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE Not much effect — the core problem is too few houses....
...Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE b) struggle to impose his planned spending cuts but revenues will remain on target or better Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University and VA Research...
...Professor Nicholas Barr, London School of Economics: Plan A has not been vindicated, as compared with a more phased approach to reducing the deficit....
...George Buckley, Chief UK Economist, Deutsche Bank Growth may well continue to be highly dependent on the consumer....
...Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE (a) worse (b) much worse Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University and VA Research The increase in uncertainty engendered by the possibility of UK exit...
...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....
...George Buckley, Deutsche Bank Households spend around £60bn per year on petrol and utility bills....
...George Buckley, Deutsche Bank Estimating the equilibrium unemployment/employment rate is difficult — after all, it is unobservable and changes over time....
...(World population forecast 9bn by 2050) George Buckley, Deutsche Bank We’re expecting a slower, but more sustainable, rate of economic growth next year....
...George Buckley, Deutsche Bank Budget plans are very rarely strictly adhered to....
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