Tera AllasSnap, crackle, and pop: understanding inflation and how it is measuredEconomists and commentators love to use movement-related words when describing the economy. Is the economy speeding up or slowing down…5 min read·Nov 25, 2022----
Tera AllasHow inflation exacerbates the great attritionMany fascinating analyses (e.g., here) have started to better understand the underlying causes of “the great attrition” — i.e., workers…3 min read·Oct 21, 2022----
Tera AllasVisualising 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…4 min read·Oct 20, 2022----
Tera AllasPost-pandemic GDP growth in UK’s different sectors is divergingThe 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…2 min read·Oct 17, 2022----
Tera AllasWaning momentum in key sectors of the UK economyThe most important thing to say about the UK’s economic outlook is that it remains extraordinarily uncertain. Nevertheless, the latest news…2 min read·Sep 13, 2022----
Tera AllasThe economic outlook as of autumn 2022 in one chartI like a #dataisbeautiful chart that tells a story, and this one is unequivocal.2 min read·Sep 2, 2022----
Tera AllasWorking from home increases productivity, but is much more nuanced than you might thinkInspired 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…5 min read·May 12, 2022----
Tera AllasCapital concerns: slower growth in assets is weighing on UK’s productivity growthThe role of capital in enhancing labour productivity — the output delivered by each worker per hour worked — is a core feature of how…4 min read·May 9, 2022--1--1
Tera AllasManufacturing and healthcare businesses particularly squeezed by inflationAs households start to feel the impacts of consumer price increases on their financial resilience, inflation is also squeezing businesses’…2 min read·May 6, 2022----
Tera AllasInflation is starting to impact the most financially-resilient age groupsAs the UK population contemplates the implications of the cost of living crisis, the latest ONS data on households’ financial resilience…2 min read·May 4, 2022----