You may have heard this story before about how an #economics student spotted the error in the research paper that underpinned George Osborne’s calamitous policy of #austerity that is still haunting the UK…but either way this is a cracking read from Russ in Cheshire
https://russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spreadsheet-that-broke-britain
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