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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…

5 min readNov 25, 2022

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

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Tera Allas

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…

3 min readOct 21, 2022

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How inflation exacerbates the great attrition

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Tera Allas

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…

4 min readOct 20, 2022

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Visualising UK inflation: three (interlinked) forces at work

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Tera Allas

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…

2 min readOct 17, 2022

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

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Tera Allas

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…

2 min readSep 13, 2022

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Waning momentum in key sectors of the UK economy

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The economic outlook as of autumn 2022 in one chart

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

2 min readSep 2, 2022

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The economic outlook as of autumn 2022 in one chart

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Tera Allas

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…

5 min readMay 12, 2022

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

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Tera Allas

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…

4 min readMay 9, 2022

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

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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’…

2 min readMay 6, 2022

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Manufacturing and healthcare businesses particularly squeezed by inflation

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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…

2 min readMay 4, 2022

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

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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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