{"id":30834,"date":"2015-10-04T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=30834"},"modified":"2015-10-04T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T10:33:08","slug":"its-indifference-that-is-the-biggest-threat-to-our-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/04\/its-indifference-that-is-the-biggest-threat-to-our-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s indifference that is the biggest threat to our economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/oct\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-the-conservative-conference-tories-should-enjoy-the-moment\" target=\"_blank\"> intrigued by an Observer subheading <\/a>this morning that says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything seems set fair [for the Tories]. But Europe and a leadership contest could make next week look like halcyon days in years to come<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The political content of the column does not worry me: any party that wins a geenral election has a triumphanmt conference afterwards. What concerns me is that the Observer has not noticed there is the possibility of an economnic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>China is in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The emerging markets are <a href=\"https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/512ac12a-683f-11e5-97d0-1456a776a4f5?ftcamp=crm\/email\/2015102\/nbe\/Comment\/product\" target=\"_blank\">facing the most enormous debt bubble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions are being raised about the viability of the world's largest commodities trader.<\/p>\n<p>A massive EU company (VW) faces extinction in the face of fraud, and may not be alone.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of England is suggesting buy-to-let is destabilising UK banks, and our economy in yet another credit bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Around the world there is little investment and a massive savings glut whilst inequality is growing, rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>And the Observer don't think any of that might derail the UK economy.<\/p>\n<p>That's what's really staggering.<\/p>\n<p>And the indifference to this threat is the biggest risk to the UK that there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am intrigued by an Observer subheading this morning that says: Everything seems set fair [for the Tories]. But Europe and a leadership contest could<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/10\/04\/its-indifference-that-is-the-biggest-threat-to-our-economy\/\"><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-30834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834","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=30834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}