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Things might get worse before they get better

It has been a worrying week for the economy. The Q4 GDP figures bore out the story that the global economic slowdown and Brexit worries are weighing on growth. And it increasingly looks like Brexit will go down to the wire. If there is a silver lining, it is that consumers are holding up well.

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