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📽️Here's my deep dive on today's economic growth (or rather contraction) data 👇 The economy has essentially flatlined since the election. But the big picture is what matters here.. some sectors are shrinking alarmingly quickly

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Ed Conway1 year ago

Possibly the key chart👇 The chemicals sector, one of the mainstays of the British economy for decades, has contracted by more than a third over the past three years. Deindustrialisation is happening. Accelerating, even.

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Ed Conway1 year ago

I realise this may be seen as a cynical bid to shift copies of my book for Christmas. But in all seriousness: the importance of these sectors, in a profound if not always GDP-centric sense, is entirely the point of Material World. This stuff matters, however unfashionable it is

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Deals Finder1 year ago

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Matt1 year ago

Highest energy costs in Europe has consequences shock 😲

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Lostintranslation1 year ago

This is going to be painful for Sky after all the effort they made foisting this inept Govt upon us with their biased coverage pre election

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Classically Liberal 🎗️1 year ago

Difficult to grow an economy when energy costs are so high and taxes are increasing.

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James Tomalin1 year ago

Over regulation and the highest energy costs in the world don’t help things, add into the mix an incompetent, anti business government and you have all the ingredients for….

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Anne1 year ago

It’s been 5 months Ed. You don’t turn around the Tory mess in 5 months. What is happening is you aren’t allowing time and are talking the country down.

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Demosthenes1 year ago

UK economy has felt like a CFO cooking the books with accelerating revenue. We just do it by adding 800k additional ppl, whilst everyone’s utility suffers to show headline GDP is just meh. You would be a fool to run a chemical company in the UK with these industrial energy prices. Move to the US.

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Here&There1 year ago

Having a fantatic as Energy Secretary has consequences. A man that surrounds himself with group think tank. He (but he will not) should listen to this he will not as all socialist believe they know best. Poverty Britain

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Mayor of West Yorks1 year ago

We are crashing into recession thanks to the lies of the Labour government- no other explanation- look at guilt rates - we are bust with huge public sector cuts coming

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