Hints and tips:
...Andrew Simms: This is simply the wrong question....
...Ray Barrell: In 2023, we are likely to see slightly disturbed earth rather than green shoots....
...Andrew Simms: The Bank of England can influence but not fully control inflation....
...Ray Barrell: Regional levelling depends heavily on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations....
...Ray Barrell: Field trials are uncommon in macroeconomics, but now we have one....
...Ray Barrell, professor, Brunel university Austerity will be much modified in the next few years....
...Ray Barrell, professor, Brunel University London Real wages growth is likely to be negative next year as the economy slows down, with nominal wage growth unlikely to be much above two per cent....
...Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University London The Bank of England sees a need for two increases in interest rates [in 2018], and we are likely to see rates at 1 per cent by the end of 2018....
...Ray Barrell, professor, Brunel University London Productivity growth in the UK in 2018 is likely to be around the average of the last few years, with no pick-up in sight....
...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 Simms, Co-director New Weather Institute, University of Sussex The question implies that the UK’s rate of GDP growth is an effective shorthand for the wider success of the economy....
...Ray Barrell, professor, Brunel University London More optimistic than 12 months ago....
...Andrew Simms, co-director, New Weather Institute The minor movement of inflation to a shred over 1 per cent keeps rates at levels that are still historically very low....
...“Conflict and environmental degradation show no sign of lessening,” said Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute....
...Ray Barrell, emeritus professor, Brunel University, National Institute of Economic and Social Research We have long known about the difference between insurable and unknowable risks....
...Andrew Simms, co-director, New Weather Institute The UK is weighed down with an ageing, creaking, high-carbon infrastructure....
...Andrew Simms, co-director, New Weather Institute There is a strange and tenacious myth in economic commentary that a single, meaningful interest rate prevails across the economy....
...Ray Barrell, emeritus professor, Brunel Unversity, National Institute of Economic and Social Research GDP growth may well slow by more than half a percentage point in 2017 as compared with 2016....
...Ray Barrell, emeritus professor, Brunel University, National Institute of Economic and Social Research Feel about the same as 12 months ago We know little about life outside the EU at present, as the role...
...‘Savage Beauty’ is at the V&A in London until August 2, vam.ac.uk Photographs: Ann Ray (AKA Anne Deniau); Anthea Simms; Catwalking.com...
...Andrew Simms, Director, New Weather Economics My greatest concern about the balance of Britain’s recovery is that it has none....
...Ray Barrell, a professor at Brunel University, said reducing public spending as a share of the total economy was always difficult....
...Government policy is doing little more than making a small dent in the problem Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University and VA Research Housing policy changes are slowly dribbling out, but so far short...
...Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University and VA Research A tightening of monetary policy involves an increase in real interest rates....
...Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE Not very easily * Slow growth in Europe * Uncertainty about Brexit slows FDI * Slower growth in emerging market economies Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel...
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