Economic Trends: February 2012

Chris Wales has a rude awakening to the New Year when he is disturbed by some perceptive commentators

I woke up to 2012 on 4 January. Not that there had been a particularly prolonged bout of New Year celebration in the Wales’ house. But I had definitely been trying to ignore the urge to read a newspaper again.

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