The Office for National Statistics in the UK has just released its estimates for GDP in the last quarter of 2012 (click here). GDP fell by 0.3%, which means that if GDP growth in the first quarter of 2013 is negative that the UK is officially back in recession for the third time since the 2008 financial crisis. GDP in the UK is still below its 2007 level, and the big question for many economists is when will GDP get back to its 2007 level? Many commentators are talking about a decade or more of lost growth. Maybe it would have been better to let the banks fail in 2008 rather than endure a sickly economy for a decade or more!
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .