Our economic situation - Part two
Why will the Hunt-Sunak budget compound the economic damage?
We’ll need more than a good Budget to save us
Whereas we were once a country unified in spirit but divided in details of economic policy, we have become one largely apathetic towards economics and split increasingly in spirit.
"9 in 10” tells us two things
Spain’s narrative of dependency on mass tourism might finally have some chinks in its armour for the first time in twenty years.
The Furlough clock ticks down to unemployment
The Furlough scheme is not a job saver, but a clock stopper – in that it freezes time so as to delay an impending catastrophe
Why we should stop worrying about inflation
All this suggests a classic case of a transitory, rather than a permanent, increase of inflation