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Fiscal fears set to deepen

Recent figures on the public finances, coupled with growing concerns over the public cost of measures to address the banking crisis, have led to major fears over the UK’s fiscal position. But our forecasts for the likely path of the economy over the next year or two suggest that those fears are likely to deepen significantly further in time.

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