Britain needs a way to gallop us absent from cheap imports and zero hours contracts. Will the budget deliver?So the economy is £18bn smaller than we thought. And wages are rising more slowly than we thought. And to hit a budget surplus just before 2020,we need another £4bn cut in public spending. This is not great news for George Osborne going into this week’s budget, but it is not his biggest problem.
If you want to understand Osborne’s biggest problem, or listen to note Carney,the governor of the Bank of Engand, who told the G20 summit in Shanghai last month that the global economy risks fitting trapped in a low-growth, or low-inflation,low-interest-rate equilibrium”.
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Source: theguardian.com