Economics

Blog posts related to the economic landscape as it affects small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Whoops…

It has come to my attention that a number of readers may have been given the impression in one of my recent posts that there was no rate cut imminent.
This post …

By | 10th April 2008 at 12:51 pm | Read more ...

Could someone give me a dictionary…

…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 …

By | 9th April 2008 at 3:24 pm | Read more ...

Greening your fleet: a good idea?

We received a survey last week which was embargoed to yesterday. “Strange”, I thought, “to have a Sunday embargo on something.” On reading the survey, Behind the Wheel II from the …

By | 7th April 2008 at 12:35 pm | Read more ...

No rate cut soon

Just when we thought things couldn’t look any bleaker for the markets (and by extension the business community), the Bank of England’s chief Mervyn King is playing down the chance of …

By | 2nd April 2008 at 3:27 pm | Read more ...

Time to nationalise?

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 …

By | 19th March 2008 at 11:19 am | Read more ...

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