As we’ve been putting together this year’s Almanac, our politicians and civil servants have of course been frantically negotiating the details of the UK’s forthcoming departure from the EU. But, although Britain may be leaving the European Union, Britain is not leaving Europe. At least, not yet. So, we thought now might be a good…
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This year we’ve been taking stock of Britain’s changing business climate. Our reflection has been prompted, in part, by the 35th anniversary of our Captains of Industry survey which, since 1981, has been quizzing senior executives from FTSE 500 companies about how they see the business landscape. Gloom and doom The survey was born at…
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Every month, the Ipsos Global Economic Pulse survey asks people around the world to tell us how they think the economy is doing in their country. No economists, analysts or any other kind of so-called experts are involved. What do people see? Well, we can talk about the global economy and the intertwined-ness of international…
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This October, the International Monetary Fund published its latest review of the global economy, predicting a slowdown in growth this year to 3.1% (from 3.4% in 2014). In its understated way, the IMF noted that “prospects across the main countries and regions remain uneven”.1http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2015/02/index.html “Uneven” is a certainly a good descriptor of what we’ve witnessed…
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