Britain (and I guess you) chose. Rising house prices. (View Post)

Anyway, you can poke at the data for long time. The overall picture is pretty clear and things looks set to get worse before they get better. The more interesting question is why? In essence, it seem… (View Post)

According to that data, the UK’s GDP per capita (PPP) was almost three times that of Poland’s in 1990, and now just one third larger. Not that this is surprising or especially enlightening. Removing … (View Post)

The only way is up. (View Post)

There are reasons to be hopeful. The large gap that now exists between UK productivity and the “frontier” (ie US, Switzerland etc) suggests that we are overdue a period of “catch-up”. Britain still r… (View Post)