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What did you find worse? Recession or cost of living crisis?

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ThemysteriousH · 02/01/2024 00:07

This is not intended to cause offence

I know it’s rude to talk about money so I thought maybe asking strangers wouldn’t be so bad?

I’m early 30s so whilst I remember the recession it didn’t affect me directly as compared to me now with a household, bills and DC.

I’m personally struggling a lot, working full time, month to month, had a bit of 2023 living in a hostel homeless as my landlord sold up, but I know I’m blessed now with having a home, food, heating etc and that it could be SO SO much worse.
I wondered those that have lived through both as a grown up, has any felt worse?

I hope this post doesn’t come across as distasteful, I’m not very good with words I’ll be honest.

Hoping that 2024 will be better for us all 🤞

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mamma65432 · 03/01/2024 09:07

Cost of living crisis for sure, in 2008 I was out of work for five months but had been earning enough so had plenty of savings, other than that I've worked solidly for 22 years in this sector for various employers - but this year myself and tens of thousands of IT workers have been laid off and struggled to find anything else - think 150+ applications for every job. According to the ONS 'the number of job vacancies dropped for the 17th consecutive period to an over two-year low of 949 thousand, marking the longest consecutive run of quarterly falls ever recorded.' I can't understand why unemployment rates aren't higher...

AgileDuck · 22/01/2025 11:45

Today’s financial globe impersonates "The Bank of Gyndes". Stipulated money rates have besieged the dark globe backdrops for many years. High interest monetary policies and EPC regulations, the Renters' Rights Bill and even potential shifts in leadership, explored the house hunters to change their eagerness and revise the house market research to stay ahead in the game.

The summer boost of buff economic upswing has made British people to envoy the first half of 2024 and has metered up the labour party to be an infirmary to fume out the weakened and pestle back bone of the UK monarchy with the book of luck.

Infrequently, the UK grew strongly in the first half of 2024, when the economy was rebounding from the brief recession at the end of 2023. GDP has an imperative increase up to 0.7% between January and March, and 0.5% between April and June last year annually.

Rachel Reeves had delivered her first Budget on 30th October 2024 and Keir Starmer had warned the nation of the early burst of pain with precautions of prudence.

The forecast of a 1.2% boost in 2025 is desirable. The households have to be thoughtful as economic think tanks have merged a tabulate inferno to outrage the speculation radicals as the growth has slowed down since last then.

The economy had zero (0%) growth between last July and September, and economists have predicted the next quarterly very low numbers for the last three months of the year, bare in mind it may vary from time to time. The UK must push hard on tanks, dug off the inflation basin.

Britain’s economic growth is “robust" at the beginning of this new year and road mapping for the upcoming strikes. The OECD (UK, the US, France, Canada, Germany, Japan and Italy) said the UK economy was on course to expand by 1.1% this year, compared to a 0.4% forecast of last spring.

At the same time, stagflation had exorcised small businesses in the past and made the government to catch “duck goodie bags" and induce the spectre of “stagflation". High commodity prices have always relayed the toxications of the weak fiscal activities and high unemployment rates.

Hence, the UK economy seems a gloop of the cat and mouse persona at “Royal Albert Theatre”, economists have positive implications on economic growth, they are intriguing to overcome the highest speculation of inflation on log, with a prediction of a 2.7% spike for this year.

Furthermore, Reeves has high hopes of glimpse to fasten up economic growth with her aesthetic figures to milestone one of the missions of the recent labour government. The revised figures made "BOE" to hold interest rates at 5% from last year.

BOE’s “Governor Andrew Bailey” said to the MPC must be able to reduce rates gradually over the times.Thus, with the help of Lords and financial regulators the Bank of England lowered the base rate twice in the recent years, immensely bringing it down from a hike of 5.25% to 4.75%.

EasternStandard · 22/01/2025 19:08

Recession for sure

My sector was hit hard in 2008

AgileDuck · 23/01/2025 12:20

Awfully... The life is not easy any more. We have to pull boats out offshore. It is very racial n diverse of BOE. There is another financial storm on its way. We must be guarded with bravery to board on high risk challenges .

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