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The rise in insolvencies is largely the economy getting back to normal after what was a very abnormal situation during the pandemic.

The ‘insolvency armageddon’ is all hype

Concern about the record number of company failures is not only overblown, but the surge in businesses going bust is probably a good thing.

  • Michael Read
Small shifts in behaviour can have a big effect. A jump in the number of homeowners welcoming flatmates has added the equivalent of 106,000 houses onto the market.

These two charts show the worst of the rental crisis is over

Small shifts in behaviour can have a big effect. A jump in the number of homeowners welcoming flatmates has added the equivalent of 106,000 houses onto the market.

  • Michael Read

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