{"id":14855,"date":"2012-03-29T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14855"},"modified":"2012-03-29T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:42:31","slug":"the-view-from-paris-is-that-were-deep-in-it-and-up-to-our-necks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-view-from-paris-is-that-were-deep-in-it-and-up-to-our-necks\/","title":{"rendered":"The view from Paris is that we&#8217;re deep in it, and up to our necks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/mar\/29\/uk-back-in-recession-oecd\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian notes this evening<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UK is heading back into recession and will be among the slowest of the world's largest economies to recover in the first half of this year, according to a study by the Paris-based thinktank, the\u00a0OECD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hate to say I told you so, although I will say the OECD does have a track record of spending a great deal to come to the bleeding obvious conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of them. It didn't take genius to work out George Osborne has messed up big time; just acute observation. Some of us used that\u00a0some\u00a0time\u00a0ago and aren't in the slightest bit\u00a0surprised\u00a0that the likes of the OECD are now catching up with us.<\/p>\n<p>The OECD did not say how to get out of the mess either.<\/p>\n<p>The left have. When they catch up with our prescriptions then we'll have breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes this evening: The UK is heading back into recession and will be among the slowest of the world&#8217;s largest economies to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/29\/the-view-from-paris-is-that-were-deep-in-it-and-up-to-our-necks\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}