Posted by Guy Clapperton on 23rd April 2008.
In recent weeks, given the remit of covering business money, I’ve said quite a lot about the state of the economy. I’m going to give it a break this week; either confidence will return or it won’t (and I still believe a lot of the problem has been about either confidence or more likely overconfidence [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 9th April 2008.
…because a lot of this economic forecasting is giving me a headache.
It goes like this. Alistair Darling’s forecast for this year was for 1.7 per cent or so growth in the economy. It seems not everyone agrees with him and the actual figure is likely to be 1.5 per cent.
More seriously for Darling, the figure [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 19th March 2008.
I was going to try to be erudite on my own behalf today. To look at the current difficulties in banking, to consider what’s going on under the bonnet of the major lending institutions and to consider what effect this would have on the smaller operators (like SmallBizPod readers) who depend on the institutions for [...]
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