About this episode

The episode discusses the UK economic outlook, focusing on GDP growth, inflation, and geopolitical impacts on domestic prices.

Are we out of the woods yet? In this podcast, Ellie Golden hosts our UK Chief Economist Barret Kupelian, along with Jake Finney, a manager in our Economics team, to discuss their views on the macroeconomic outlook and the reports special article, which offers a holistic evaluation on undergraduate degrees. The speaker's outline their views on GDP growth, the outlook on headline inflation and what recent geopolitical developments could mean for domestic prices in the UK.

People in this episode

Host: Ellie Golden

Guests: Barret Kupelian, Jake Finney

Topics covered

• macroeconomic outlook
• GDP growth
• headline inflation
• geopolitical developments
• domestic prices
• undergraduate degrees

Keywords

• UK economy
• GDP
• inflation
• geopolitics
• economic outlook
• undergraduate degrees

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PwC UK

Places: UK

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