Today is the big one, but this week has seen a steady release of important numbers relating to the economy.
We've learnt that unemployment finally tipped above 2.5m in 2010Q1, that inflation is up to 3.4% due in part to petrol prices (again due in main part to exchange rate changes and tax), that government borrowing is very large indeed (what didn't we know?).
Today is the big one: GDP growth, from 9:30am.
Also, the debates: Final one on campus next Thursday - get along if you can!
This blog accompanies the econ101ab Principles of Economics course given at the University of Birmingham. The lecturers for both parts of the course (101a, microeconomics and 101b, macroeconomics) will occasionally post here on matters related to lecture material. We hope to show the relevance of the concepts we are teaching at each stage of the course for helping understand how the world works...
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