UK economy: Making sense of the numbers with Ed Conway
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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The Sky News Daily's Niall Paterson sits down with our economics and data editor Ed Conway to find out what the numbers mean.
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| 1:06.1 | Sometimes it feels like we are swimming, perhaps even drowning in data. |
| 1:11.6 | Figures coming at your left, right and centre, without much in the way of analysis or explanation. |
| 1:17.6 | And this week, frankly, it's been no different. |
| 1:19.6 | Wages, well, they have apparently outstripped inflation. |
| 1:22.6 | But is that a good thing? |
| 1:24.6 | GDP is down by not 0.5%, but why? And should we be concerned? |
| 1:30.5 | Employment is down, unemployment is up, but job vacancies fell beneath 1 million for the first time in 25 months. |
| 1:36.8 | What on earth is going on there? I'm Neil Patterson, and regular listeners to the Sky News Daily will already be aware that I don't have the answers. |
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| 1:50.9 | Ed Conway. You love these introductions that I give you. |
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