Subject: Re: BOE raises rates again to 4%
Maybe BREXIT wasn't such a great idea after all

Fareed Zaharia has some thoughts:

There's a remedy for Britain's problems: Rejoin the E.U.

' This week marked the third anniversary of Brexit, and it coincided with a grim verdict from the International Monetary Fund: This year, the British economy will do worse than all of the world's major economies ' including Russia. The 2016 vote to leave the European Union marked the symbolic start of the wave of populism that has been coursing through much of the Western world ever since. It was a conscious choice by a major country to have poorer economic relations with its largest market.

(In 2021, the European Union took in around 42 percent of British exports.) British voters thus put nationalism and politics above economics.
On virtually every measure, from business investment to exports to employment, Britain is falling behind its peers. Think tank scholar John Springford put it simply: 'If you impose barriers to trade, investment and migration with your biggest trading partner (EU), then you're going to have quite a big hit to trade volumes, and to investment and to GDP.' '
https://wapo.st/3HUbS2C

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