{"id":88267,"date":"2025-12-08T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88267"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:02:48","slug":"optimisim-is-in-short-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/08\/optimisim-is-in-short-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimisim is in short supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday's video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/06\/the-bank-of-england-is-warning-a-financial-crash-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the risks of a crash<\/a>, based on warnings from the Bank of England, has now had more than 250,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCGlMOIZ1A3zluwLXTGpzZfw\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> related poll<\/a> has had 29,000 votes, the opinion being spread as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-07.58.13-550x324.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-07.58.13-550x324.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-07.58.13-508x300.png 508w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-07.58.13-768x453.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-07.58.13-600x354.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-08-at-07.58.13.png 878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People are not optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>I don't blame them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s video on the risks of a crash, based on warnings from the Bank of England, has now had more than 250,000 views. The related<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/08\/optimisim-is-in-short-supply\/\"><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-88267","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\/88267","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=88267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88270,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88267\/revisions\/88270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}