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Originally posted by sreed View PostI hope a GDP related post is on-topic enough for a 'State of the market' thread! If not, apologies and I'm happy to put it in the General section.
The only reason we're only in a 'technical recession' as opposed to a 'recession' is continued growth in population through Sunak's mass legal immigration. GDP per capita has been negative for a good few quarters now, -0.7% over 2023.
So if you don't feel it when Sunak/Hunt proclaim that the UK economy has 'turned a corner', you're probably right!
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Originally posted by pjt View Post
Certainly feeling like we've been in a recession at least the whole of this year. End of last year I was seeing jobs come up that suited me but since I've actually been looking in January its been dead.
The UK economy is in a poor state relative to many other advanced industrialised countries and lack of business investment is a key cause.
For the last 15 years productivity growth has flatlined and real wages for many regions are actually lower than 2008. If GDP growth had carried on the long term trend from the 1960s, the average wage would be £10,700 higher than today.
Coupled with crumbling infrastructure and low public investment including education and healthcare and it's no surprise there's little growth or creation of skilled and well paid jobs.
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Originally posted by sreed View PostI hope a GDP related post is on-topic enough for a 'State of the market' thread! If not, apologies and I'm happy to put it in the General section.
The only reason we're only in a 'technical recession' as opposed to a 'recession' is continued growth in population through Sunak's mass legal immigration.
So that tells us pretty much the same story.
It still has to rally over 25% to get back to new highs.Last edited by Fraidycat; 15 February 2024, 15:20.Comment
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