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...biographies are inspired by new trends in the way history is written, such as the history of the social contexts that enable the rise of charismatic dictators; on other occasions they are informed by previously unknown...
...But it remains early days, with many known, and probably unknown, challenges to come....
...The leading man is unknown outside Japan, and the story slinks from violent Yakuza thriller and gumshoe mystery to kitchen-sink family drama and witty character study....
...There will remain much uncertainty on how to organise one's business in response to the unknown new trade relationship with the EU....
...But there are a number of downside risks,” said Ian Simm, Impax’s chief executive....
...The next step will be, of course, the 2019 spending review (date unknown) when the government will announce its plans to 2023-24....
...Andrew Simms, co-director New Weather Institute, University of Sussex As the ONS pointed out in autumn, despite unemployment being at the lowest level since 1975, real wages fell in the previous year by...
...The fundamentals are improving, the impact of policy on growth may be broadly neutral in 2018, but it is confidence that is the big unknown....
...Trump is still very much an unknown quantity....
...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....
...Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford It’s all about uncertainty going into 2017, full of even more unknown unknowns than was 2016 which was a bumper year for economic uncertainty...
...“Conflict and environmental degradation show no sign of lessening,” said Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute....
...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 of the Single Market, the external tariff and controls on migration are unknown...
...Andrew Simms, Director, New Weather Economics Uncertainty and instability are the enemies of real prosperity....
...Andrew Simms, Director, New Weather Economics My greatest concern about the balance of Britain’s recovery is that it has none....
...The key unknown for 2016 relates to productivity growth....
...Andrew Simms, fellow at the New Economics Foundation A referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union would be a weapon of mass distraction used against addressing the real economic problems we...
...Charles Davis, CEBR We expect the Bank to raise rates in the final quarter of 2015 but the uncertainty over the election result and corollary pace of deficit reduction is a big unknown that surely has an...
...But there are many unknowns and they will only become evident in due course....
...Alan Clarke, Scotiabank: Inertia and fear of the unknown are likely to mean that even if this were to come to a referendum, we are more likely to stay in than vote to jump out of the frying pan into the...
...Greece may well decide this year that the price of staying is too high (though the unknown price of leaving would also be huge) and agree to separate....
...Andrew Simms, New Economics Foundation 1. The banks (see answer 2). 2. The programme of spending cuts (see answer 1). 3....
...Economic gloom, a Labour government on the rocks, disputes about the term “golliwog” – we seem, like John Simm in Life on Mars, to have woken up 30 years in the past....
...The second short term risk is the unknown – the US Senate voting to impose tariffs on China, for example. The third short term risk is George Osborne....
...However, I think the greatest risk is presented by what Donald Rumsfeld called “unknown unknowns”: developments that we have not conceived of yet and are therefore difficult to quantify....
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