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Prosperity is easier to recognise when the measures begin with lived conditions instead of abstractions.
Growth is useful, but it is not self-interpreting. A rising aggregate can coexist with a shrinking sense of possibility.
The better question is what expansion makes newly possible: secure homes, shorter journeys, healthier streets or work with room to improve.
An economy earns confidence when its headline direction becomes visible in ordinary life.
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A compact guide to the rate decision, the labour revision and the signal hiding in household spending.
The most interesting retail recovery is smaller, stranger and more local than expected.