IFS's Johnson: It's not been a great decade, and economists were right about Brexit
We have gone well past the brink of things not being good and the last 10 years have turned out to be so different relative to what was reasonably predicted, according to Paul Johnson.
The gap between forecasts and reality has been extraordinarily big since the financial crisis, with growth faltering in particular since the 2016 EU referendum, warned the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
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