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Unjolly hockey sticks
Someone asked an interesting question at the Institute for Fiscal Studies’
post-Budget briefing yesterday: have we ever seen a squeeze in real earnings
like the one we’re currently experiencing?
The question matters because real earnings are one of the most important
barometers of the economy’s health. During the