Yet another installment in the series of David Blanchflower’s Terrible Tips. The former Prime Mentalist’s favourite former appointee to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee got his faulty crystal ball out again at the end of March, predicting growth for the year of 0.2%. In April he said that a “triple dip remains a real prospect“. In May he “nearly fell over laughing“ at the suggestion a recovery was in sight. He regularly predicted rising unemployment, when it fell. So did he fare any better this time round?
Well this week the OECD doubled its outlook for UK growth to 1.5%, now the OECD expects Britain to even outstrip Germany and France over 2013. What’s more, in the last quarter, the UK grew at an annualised healthy 4.5%, with growth across all sectors. The fastest for decades. Even Ed Balls now admits we are on the road to recovery…
David Blanchflower is a poor excuse for an economist, compared to Ronald Coase, who sadly died on September 2nd aged 102. The Nobel prize winner enjoys nowhere near as much fame as media-savvy left-wing economists like Blanchflower. Coase should be more famous because it was his idea originally to sell off radio spectrum rights, a policy idea which led to Gordon Brown raising £22.5 billion from the privatisation of the 3G spectrum. The greatest one-day privatisation ever seen in Britain, carried out by a socialist. That was genius…
