Posts Tagged ‘recession’

I’ve avoided detailing quite how bad it is for the construction and property sectors at the moment for fear of depressing the hell out of both myself and my small (but perfectly formed) audience. But it’s impossible to avoid it. Choose your depressing statistic from the (now defunct) pick and mix section: eight building firms [...]

So the wheels are coming off the PFI movement. The government’s solution to building a lot of stuff we need without having to fork out too much of its own cash is now at a crossroads – the latest analysis I saw on this was in yesterday’s Observer. Given that the middle word in PFI [...]

It’s coming to the time of the year when you start to look and plan for the next. At this particular time it’s something akin to staring into an abyss – how bad is it going to get in 2009? we ask ourselves. And for those wondering about whether sustainability is going to be flung [...]

I composed a few thoughts earlier this week on the recession. Since then I fellow blogger admitted to me he was having trouble keeping the posts going at the minute as everything is so gloomy. It’s a difficult balance to strike – reflecting on current events but trying not to get too bogged down by [...]

I consider myself pretty lucky to have dodged the experience of a full blown recession during my working life. In the last one of the early 1990s I was largely drinking watered-down lager and sat on a couch in Liverpool, with not even the worry of student fees to bother my rather addled mind. So [...]