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Analysis

Post-referendum Britain is living on debt

by Vicky Pryce | 02.08.2018

If interest rate hikes kill off debt-fuelled consumer spending, they will expose the myth that the economy is fine for what it is: a myth.

Analysis

Weakening UK growth adds to May’s perils

by Alan Wheatley | 03.07.2017

As economy loses altitude, consumers rack up debt and plunder savings to keep spending. Manufacturing and exports are not taking up slack.