The State of the Economy? What the Papers Say
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 29th June 2021 The effects of COVID-19 are still disproportionately being felt by the travel industry - one industry that is unlikely to return to [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 29th June 2021 The effects of COVID-19 are still disproportionately being felt by the travel industry - one industry that is unlikely to return to [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 15th June 2021 Boris Johnson yesterday announced that the so-called "day of freedom" is to be delayed by a month. He insists however that it [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 1st June 2021 It's not news that there was a significant shift towards the Conservatives at the recent local elections in England. Much of this [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 11th May 2021 It's been a while since my last look at the state of the economy, and at first glance, it seems to be [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 23rd February 2021 Boris Johnson has announced plans to move the country out of lockdown. Provided all goes well with the opening of schools and [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 9th February 2021 In recent weeks, an odd occurrence took place on the stock market. It has caused a significant shift in the attitudes of [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 26th January 2021 It will come as no surprise to you that I am about to give bad news about the UK economy; particularly unemployment. [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 19th January 2021 China's economy is the only major one to grow in 2020. It's no wonder, because it cashed in on the very pandemic [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 5th January 2021 We are only days in to 2021 and once again, Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has shaken the money tree [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday December 8th 2020 News on the British economy this morning is dominated by two things: Brexit and the COVID-19 vaccine. Will we be able to [...]
Anne Marie Waters December 1st 2020 There is a short documentary on the BBC website looking at the financial situation for the poorest people in Burnley. A church representative [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday November 24th 2020 The run-up to Christmas is vital to the life of some businesses. Retail sales peak at this time of year and for [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday November 3rd 2020 It's the development we were all dreading; another lockdown. England will enter a second lockdown - though one not as severe as [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday October 20th 2020 The world economy is moving fast and it isn't easy to keep up. Last week I gave you some detail on the [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 13th October 2020 I'll return to my series of reviews of Thomas Sowell's Economic Facts and Fallacies in the coming weeks, but for now, Rishi [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday October 6th 2020 In recent weeks, I've been covering the work and ideas of American economist Thomas Sowell by reviewing his book Economic Facts and [...]
Anne Marie Waters September 29th 2020 In this series of blogs, I'm looking at some of the ideas of the American economist Thomas Sowell, and specifically his book Economic [...]
Anne Marie Waters September 22nd 2020 In the first of this blog series (you can read part one here) I looked at the concept of fallacy as put forward [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday September 1st 2020 You may be familiar with Thomas Sowell, the American economist. If not, I recommend his work. He grew up in Harlem and [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday August 11th 2020 It feels as though this column only ever features bad news, but that is hardly surprising given the times we are in. [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday July 21st 2020 I say the state of the economy today is unknown because it felt like the only appropriate word (other than "terrifying" which [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday July 7th 2020 It's back! Our economy has now pretty much re-opened, so how is it going? The short answer is: mixed (again). The re-opening [...]
Anne Marie Waters June 30th 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has brought quite a lot of change to our world, and that's putting it rather mildly. On my livestream last [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 23rd June 2020 So, we've got the first week of post-lockdown high street trading under our belt, but how did it go? A mixed bag. [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 16th June 2020 Queues wound through organised blocks yesterday as Britain's retailers re-opened, and we got an idea of the changes we'll see on the [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 9th June 2020 The news doesn't get much better. The coronavirus crisis carries on and on, our economy gets weaker and weaker, and the pinch [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday 2nd June 2020 On the 15th of June, some shops in Britain will re-open, but we're not quite clear yet how this will work. Will [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday May 26th 2020 Former BBC 'Dragon' Theo Paphitis has declared that "retail will never ever be the same again" when economic life begins to stagger [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday May 19th 2020 Last week, in my economic blog, I discussed debt and with it, the power of banks. Debt has exploded over the last [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday May 12th 2020 If you're a book lover, like me, there will be books in your life that fundamentally change the way you view the [...]
Anne Marie Waters Tuesday May 5th 2020 Almost a quarter of the UK's workforce is currently funded by the Government. Figures show that 6.3 million people are now paid [...]