Election Special: Your questions answered
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.
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14:22 we dont know why productivity is lower? That has shocked me! Here's three reasons:
1. Capital shallowing from population growth outstripping housebuilding, infrastructure development, and business investment.
2. Energy costs in the UK being far higher than our peers, sending manufacturing overseas.
2. Too much unskilled labour
The drop in productivity coincided with the drop in interest rates to 300 year lows. Could this have been a cause?
Please get Gary Stevenson on he has a great voice for why our system is failing and no economists are talking about wealth distribution and how it affects the real economy.
Lorenz's wealth distribution model helps us to understand that.
Has anybody else caught up with the very recent analysis of Spending Plans of a few political parties here in Blighty?
Anybody else wondering how many 'out there' assumptions have gone into this document?
Anybody else wondering how this Institution justifies using the economy of USA as a reasonable indicator of probable outcomes here?
Why is so little discussion on how behavioural economics and finance, in addition to neuroeconomics can be used to stimulate the economy?
True. Sequoia Capital trestening to reduce investment in AI because it's simplynot producing viable commercial models yet.
Why not reducing nominal wages?
16 years of real wages reductions didnt work...
Income policy is now an outdated topic in mainstream economics.
How is the IFS funded, does it promote any of its sponsors veiws?
You've got internet, why don't you, " do your own reading" and come back and tells with references to credible sources to back-up your assertions. We'll wait,...
Is the lady on X1.5 speed?
at 0,75 she sounds normal
All talk no brain world over,