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Massive market failure
The rent that people are forced to pay is nothing short of a scandal, robbing people of even the remote dream of home ownership in the future. The Government has to get a grip on this and build the homes we need to fix our broken housing system #PMQs
Supply-chain shock raises risk of more volatile economic cycles ft.com/content/e702f0… superb for #theme4macro "Most policymakers have only known a world where demand has been limited and supply has been elastic." Many businesses now moving from just-in-time to just-in-case
ft.com
Supply-chain shock raises risk of more volatile economic cycles
If inventories remain higher for longer, swings in business demand will be greater
Pret A Manger will add stores in the U.S., U.K., Europe and the Middle East as it seeks to double revenue trib.al/Ozbp86j
bloomberg.com
Pret A Manger Aims to Double Sales by 2026 With JAB Investment
Pret A Manger Ltd. will add stores in the U.S., U.K., Europe and the Middle East as it seeks to double revenue in the next five years, Chief Executive Officer Pano Christou said in an interview.
Trade and foreign investment helped Vietnam emerge from extreme poverty. Can they make it rich? econ.st/3nEbITj
Markets rally as Evergrande fears ease; CO2 restart to cost ‘tens of millions’ – business live theguardian.com/business/live/…
theguardian.com
Energy suppliers Avro and Green cease trading; Fed signals tapering may start soon – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
A big story for competition regulation. CMA to investigate UK mobile phone market. Lots of useful data likely to follow for students next school year! bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
BREAKING: Fed officials held interest rates near zero but signaled they expect two increases by the end of 2023, pulling forward the date of liftoff as the economy recovers trib.al/6aW829u
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Exclusive: UK govt is paying management consultants the equivalent of million and a half pound salaries to work on Test & Trace. I’ve seen documents showing senior staff from Boston Consulting Group are being paid day rates of around £7k, equivalent to £1.5m on an annual basis.
Low borrowing costs are good news for the British government’s finances econ.trib.al/m6g2g2F
economist.com
Britain’s public debt is rising to its highest level in decades
Luckily its borrowing costs are moving in the opposite direction
Added earlier today to the tutor2uEcon blog: 7 million jobs at risk if lockdown persists zpr.io/tiunA Retweet to share with your followers! #economics
West Texas Intermediate, the US #oil benchmark, had opened at -$14, meaning producers were paying buyers to take oil off their hands as evaporating demand left the world with insufficient storage capacity. At one point on Monday, #oilprice fell below -$40 a barrel via @FT
BBC News - Coronavirus: A visual guide to the economic impact bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
Bank of England prepared to cut interest rates to soften impact of Coronavirus @ft4s #economics ft.com/content/2b0dfb… via @financialtimes
ft.com
Bank of England prepared to cut interest rates to soften impact of Coronavirus
Mark Carney tells MPs lenders could be allowed to use rainy day funds to help UK business
Terms of trade
East Africa coffee: Uganda actually exports more than Ethiopia but the latter's value is much higher. It helps if a good strategy, ceetification, branding and commodity exchange is put in place.
St Ives second home ban backfires as construction companies leave and house prices rise buff.ly/2NakCpc @Telegraph on @CEP_LSE @ChrisALHilber
Worsening UK skills gap will hold the country back ft.com/content/96e43c… via @financialtimes
ft.com
Worsening UK skills gap will hold the country back
Vocational training urgently needs to be resuscitated
Starbucks UK is paying about seven times more in royalty payments than it is paying in tax. theguardian.com/business/2019/…
theguardian.com
Starbucks pays £18.3m tax but £348m in dividends
Company has faced years of criticism for the amount of tax it pays in UK
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