Year: 2023

Construction hungry for new talent as one in four women open to skilled trades, new research reveals

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Construction hungry for new talent as one in four women open to skilled trades, new research reveals

June 22, 2023

New research from Trade-Up, a sector-wide campaign set up to train and up-skill tradespeople, exposes the industry’s talent...

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Halfords’ profits halve as customers put the brakes on bike spending post pandemic

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Halfords’ profits halve as customers put the brakes on bike spending post pandemic

June 22, 2023

Annual profits at Halfords have tumbled by 55 per cent after it was hit hard by soaring...

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Entrepreneurs launch Trafod – a new platform to revolutionise public engagement  

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Entrepreneurs launch Trafod – a new platform to revolutionise public engagement  

June 22, 2023

Cathy Owens and Nerys Evans launch Trafod to facilitate “better conversations”. Award-winning entrepreneurs Cathy Owens and Nerys...

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Construction skills ‘crisis’ as new figures reveal just one in five sector SMEs are planning to take on an apprentice 

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Construction skills ‘crisis’ as new figures reveal just one in five sector SMEs are planning to take on an apprentice 

June 22, 2023

Apprenticeship starts and completions show worrying declines, despite construction and trade business owners rating skills shortages as...

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UK dairy prices could keep rising unless staff shortages ease

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UK dairy prices could keep rising unless staff shortages ease

June 22, 2023

The UK’s largest dairy cooperative has said there could be further increases in the price of milk...

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Oliva secures €5m to expand workplace mental health support

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Oliva secures €5m to expand workplace mental health support

June 22, 2023

Oliva, a healthtech platform offering specialist, on-demand mental health and wellbeing support to employees, has today announced...

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UK set to miss net zero goals without private sector investment, warn MPs

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UK set to miss net zero goals without private sector investment, warn MPs

June 22, 2023

The government must do more to unlock private investment for green projects or risk missing its decarbonisation...

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Powell Sends Mixed Messages as He Chickens Out on Rate Hikes

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Powell Sends Mixed Messages as He Chickens Out on Rate Hikes

June 21, 2023

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday left the target policy interest rate (the...

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Assumptions Matter Both in Economics and in the Real World

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Assumptions Matter Both in Economics and in the Real World

June 21, 2023

To explain Japan’s economic problems, Paul Krugman employed a model that assumes people are identical and live...

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Sound Money Is Required for Real Budget Discipline

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Sound Money Is Required for Real Budget Discipline

June 21, 2023

The usual suspects are “relieved” that Congress gave President Biden what he wanted on the so-called budget...

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