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The UK economy after the pandemic

  • Explain how global financial crisis impacted economy
  • Explain government response to pandemic
  • Identify long-term impact of coronavirus on economy
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"I guess over the last decade financial repression has been the response to the inability to generate inflation as it has kept real interest rates down and made financing debt “easier”.  The rapid ratcheting up of quantitative easing suggests that this is the go to solution under the circumstances as it is operationally the most direct.”

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Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. True or false, the pandemic caused a sudden, sharp, flattening of the supply curve as the government ordered many businesses to close.

  2. True or false. The paradox of thrift” states that far more people think they will lose their job or suffer some other deterioration in their financial circumstances than actually do, causing them to rein in their spending.

  3. What are the implications of higher borrowing?

  4. As lockdown plans are made, if the supply curve steepens as shops re-open, but the demand curve remains relatively flat because people are afraid, then the:

  5. Which elements of the CPI will be hard to assess for a while?

  6. Ed Smith, head of asset allocation research at Rathbones believes UK GDP will decline by at least:

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  • Explain government response to pandemic
  • Identify long-term impact of coronavirus on economy

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