Will Covid-19 upset optimistic economic forecasts?
Politics: Even the Treasury’s pessimistic scenario still expects annual growth of near 3%.
Brent Edwards
Thu, 27 May 2021
Politics: Even the Treasury’s pessimistic scenario still expects annual growth of near 3%.
Economic forecasting is often described as an art, rather than a science.
Some might say a forecast is an economist’s best guess on the day. But they do give a sense of what might happen in the future and, in the case of the Treasury, are strengthened and supplemented by the publication of a