{"id":67288,"date":"2017-09-24T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-growing-debt-problem-demands-a-fresh-set-of-eyes-phillip-inman\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:06:49","slug":"britains-growing-debt-problem-demands-a-fresh-set-of-eyes-phillip-inman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-growing-debt-problem-demands-a-fresh-set-of-eyes-phillip-inman\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain's growing debt problem demands a fresh set of eyes | Phillip Inman"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe OBR\u2019s figures haven\u2019t added up for years, it\u2019s time for an in-depth examination of where the economy is goingIt\u2019s one of the saddest of all economic trade-offs: accept the need for mounting debts just to achieve moderate growth or crack down on borrowing and get no growth at all.When there are queues at food banks and child poverty is on the rise, it might seem invidious at best and irresponsible at worst to choose between reckless growth and sober stagnation. Neither option does the poorest any favours, but that appears to be the main dilemma for central bank policymakers, especially in the US and Britain. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The OBR\u2019s figures haven\u2019t added up for years, it\u2019s time for an in-depth examination of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-hvi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127490,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-signs-are-that-britain-isnt-heading-for-a-property-crash-phillip-inman\/","url_meta":{"origin":67288,"position":0},"title":"The signs are that Britain isn\u2019t heading for a property crash | Phillip Inman","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It would be naive to rule out the possibility, but the evidence points to house prices dampening rather than tumblingNationwide says UK property prices have slowed for the third consecutive month and most recently from 11.2% in May to 10.7% in June. 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