The Conversation’s panel expects weak economic growth, weak investment, even lower unemployment and two more years of ultra-low interest rates.
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The Conversation’s panel expects a rate hike by the end of 2022.
44 of the 50 leading economists surveyed by Economic Society and The Conversation back running up more debt to support the economy. Only three do not.
Rather than being “one percentage point above trend” as the prime minister has promised, the economic recovery promises below trend growth and weak living standards in the view of The Conversation’s forecasting panel.
A freeze in the minimum wage would make it easier for stressed employers to hang onto their workers says a bare majority of experts surveyed by the Economic Society and The Conversation.
The economists who support the use of social distancing measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 are not only in the majority, they are also more certain of their opinions than those who do not.
