{"id":84566,"date":"2025-08-01T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84566"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:35:05","slug":"its-just-a-question-of-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/01\/its-just-a-question-of-when\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just a question of when"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's just a question of when we get a downturn now, not if.<\/p>\n<p>These are the top stories in the FT this morning, according to one of its own emails:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27-550x353.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27-550x353.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27-467x300.png 467w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27-1536x987.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27-600x386.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-01-at-07.32.27.png 1640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you think they suggest good news, you're looking at the world through decidedly optimistic glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a question of when we get a downturn now, not if. These are the top stories in the FT this morning, according to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/01\/its-just-a-question-of-when\/\"><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":[136,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84566","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=84566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84568,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84566\/revisions\/84568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}