{"id":32232,"date":"2016-02-04T13:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32232"},"modified":"2016-02-04T13:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:58:41","slug":"so-wheres-the-economy-now-mr-carney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/02\/04\/so-wheres-the-economy-now-mr-carney\/","title":{"rendered":"So where&#8217;s the economy now Mr Carney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2016\/feb\/04\/markets-bank-of-england-interest-rate-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of England has spoken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Growth forecasts for GDP are down.<\/p>\n<p>But Mark Carney says the economy is in a robust place. Come on, Mr Carney, pull the other one. By 9-0 you just voted that you don't think it is.<\/p>\n<p>And the BoE puts interest rates on hold but says rate rises are more likely than falls. It's just that markets don't believe them.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and BoE unemployment forecast is it will be going down despite it all. Now we're just whistling in the wind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/02\/04\/so-wheres-the-economy-now-mr-carney\/screen-shot-2016-02-04-at-13-51-45\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-13.51.45-550x315.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-04 at 13.51.45\" width=\"550\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-13.51.45-550x315.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-13.51.45-524x300.png 524w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-13.51.45-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-13.51.45-200x114.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-04-at-13.51.45.png 1716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but I just don't think that leaves Carney with a shred of credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of England has spoken. Growth forecasts for GDP are down. But Mark Carney says the economy is in a robust place. Come on,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/02\/04\/so-wheres-the-economy-now-mr-carney\/\"><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-32232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32232","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=32232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}