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Snap, crackle, and pop: understanding inflation and how it is measured

Economists and commentators love to use movement-related words when describing the economy. Is the economy speeding up or slowing down…

Nov 25, 2022

Snap, crackle, and pop: understanding inflation and how it is measured

Nov 25, 2022

How inflation exacerbates the great attrition

Many fascinating analyses (e.g., here) have started to better understand the underlying causes of “the great attrition” — i.e., workers…

Oct 21, 2022

How inflation exacerbates the great attrition

Oct 21, 2022

Visualising UK inflation: three (interlinked) forces at work

[Note: since Medium doesn’t allow a sufficiently high-resolution picture to be uploaded, I’ve also provided a PDF file (which one can zoom…

Oct 20, 2022

Visualising UK inflation: three (interlinked) forces at work

Oct 20, 2022

Post-pandemic GDP growth in UK’s different sectors is diverging

The more I listen to commentary on UK GDP figures, the more convinced I am that, to make more sense of them, we need to delve beyond the…

Oct 17, 2022

Post-pandemic GDP growth in UK’s different sectors is diverging

Oct 17, 2022

Waning momentum in key sectors of the UK economy

The most important thing to say about the UK’s economic outlook is that it remains extraordinarily uncertain. Nevertheless, the latest news…

Sep 13, 2022

Waning momentum in key sectors of the UK economy

Sep 13, 2022

The economic outlook as of autumn 2022 in one chart

I like a #dataisbeautiful chart that tells a story, and this one is unequivocal.

Sep 2, 2022

The economic outlook as of autumn 2022 in one chart

Sep 2, 2022

Working from home increases productivity, but is much more nuanced than you might think

Inspired by a flurry of interesting new research on working from home (see below), I couldn’t resist looking at the data myself. In the UK…

May 12, 2022

Working from home increases productivity, but is much more nuanced than you might think

May 12, 2022

Capital concerns: slower growth in assets is weighing on UK’s productivity growth

The role of capital in enhancing labour productivity — the output delivered by each worker per hour worked — is a core feature of how…

May 9, 2022

Capital concerns: slower growth in assets is weighing on UK’s productivity growth

May 9, 2022

Manufacturing and healthcare businesses particularly squeezed by inflation

As households start to feel the impacts of consumer price increases on their financial resilience, inflation is also squeezing businesses’…

May 6, 2022

Manufacturing and healthcare businesses particularly squeezed by inflation

May 6, 2022

Inflation is starting to impact the most financially-resilient age groups

As the UK population contemplates the implications of the cost of living crisis, the latest ONS data on households’ financial resilience…

May 4, 2022

Inflation is starting to impact the most financially-resilient age groups

May 4, 2022

Tera Allas

Tera Allas

I help complex organisations make the right strategic decisions through innovative, insightful and incisive analysis and recommendations.

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