Jenny · March 11, 2026
The OECD estimates that 281 million people live outside their country of birth — a 60% increase since 2000. Advanced economies face a structural skills deficit: the EU alone will need an additional 1.2 million ICT professionals by 2030 to meet digital transformation demand. Canada’s Express Entry processed 110,000 skilled worker admissions in 2024; Germany’s [...]
Jenny · March 11, 2026
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act slashed the U.S. federal corporate rate from 35% to 21%, reducing annual federal revenues by an estimated $1.5 trillion over ten years. In 2025, with TCJA provisions expiring, Congress faces a defining choice: make the cuts permanent at an additional $4.6 trillion cost through 2034, partially reverse them, [...]
Jenny · March 11, 2026
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement escalation of 2025 — including mass deportation operations, H-1B processing freezes, and border closures — constitutes the most disruptive shift in U.S. immigration policy since the Immigration Act of 1990. The Peterson Institute estimates the deportation of 8–11 million undocumented workers could reduce U.S. GDP by 2.6–6.8% over the medium [...]
Jenny · March 10, 2026
UK output per hour worked grew at an average of just 0.5% per year between 2010 and 2024 — less than a quarter of the 2.1% pre-2008 trend. The cumulative gap between UK productivity and its pre-crisis trajectory now stands at approximately 20 percentage points. Business investment remains 3.6pp below the OECD average as a [...]
Jenny · March 10, 2026
UK public sector net debt reached 98.8% of GDP in January 2025 — the highest sustained level since the early 1960s. Annual debt interest payments have surged to £105.4 billion in 2023–24, consuming 7.5% of total government revenue. The OBR projects that without corrective action, net debt will reach 274% of GDP by 2073. The [...]
Jenny · March 10, 2026
England has built fewer than 250,000 net new homes a year for the past decade — against an acknowledged need of 300,000. House prices now stand at 8.3 times median earnings, compared to 4.1 in 2000. Homeownership among 25–34 year-olds has halved since 2003, from 55% to 28%. The private rental sector has doubled to [...]
