2023: This time the UK’s decline is real
We’re becoming the new Italy
What follows is the best account I can give of a discussion among economists on the fate of the UK. It has not broken though into the mainstream media, despite being a matter of national urgency.
Economic historians look at Britain’s dismal performance, and say that the UK has seen nothing like it since the industrial revolution. We are not merely in rel…
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