economic growth Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/economic-growth/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:45:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png economic growth Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/economic-growth/ 32 32 UK growth pains, our 40th and testimonials https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/09/19/uk-growth-struggles-as-chancellor-does/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12009 Oh dear, so the latest UK economics’ figures for the month suggest there was zero growth (and also August’s government borrowing was higher than expected as well). As I have shared before, chancellors pre-spend their projection of economic growth’s increased tax revenues so when it doesn’t happen… and the flip side is then more people […]

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]]> Growth, debt and the Titanic… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/04/30/are-trump-tariffs-akin-to-titanic-moment/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:08:05 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11803 I was reminded recently that on 14 April it was the anniversary of the Titanic hitting the iceberg, in 1912. Had it hit it head-on, it would not have sunk. Are there analogies here for President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements…? This is either the fact that 90% of the problem isn’t obvious or maybe that […]

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]]> Better news for the economy? https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/09/09/better-news-for-economy/ Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:19:17 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10850 Well, curious admissions from the IMF and feeding-through to the ONS. Everyone puts such store of value on economic statistics only to find that all the criticisms about our sluggish economy over the last few years were wrong… what is worse, however, is the deluge of commentators sarcastically loving to ‘rubbish’ the efforts of the […]

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]]> New Year rally https://www.miltonpj.net/2023/01/19/new-year-rally-despite-forecast/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:36:25 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=10407 Well, welcome to the highest ever levels for the FTSE100, what a pleasant ‘Father Christmas’ (well New Year) rally. The thing is, our market isn’t dear so the levels are nothing about which to be worried either. The same week also saw not the Bank of England Governor’s wish (he said wrongly in public we […]

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