The Three Numbers That Explain This Morning’s Shift
A compact guide to the rate decision, the labour revision and the signal hiding in household spending.
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Economy
Markets, work and the forces remaking everyday life.
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The Wind Farm That Learned to Wait
Paying a generator to switch off sounds absurd. The economics of storage are beginning to make it look like good business.
The City After the Commute
What happens when a city stops organising every part of its life around the journey to work?
Landlords Offered a Rates Holiday for Local Tenants
A new scheme would cut property charges for owners who let empty units to independent businesses.
River Ports Rehearse for a Quieter Decade
Inland harbours that grew on the back of heavy freight are planning for a future with less cargo and more of everything else.
Opinion
Opinion
A Different Kind of Growth Story
Prosperity is easier to recognise when the measures begin with lived conditions instead of abstractions.