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England first…now France, perhaps followed by Japan. “Bear in mind that the likes of Ireland, Portugal and Spain were all swept up in the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis just over a decade ago. If France’s position looks more stretched than theirs, that is concerning. Ian Harnett of Absolute Strategy Research in London further points out that France has been borrowing from the future since the Global Financial Crisis in a way unseen elsewhere in the developed world. It’s well-known that the US has tried much more aggressive fiscal expansion than anyone in the eurozone; it’s very much less well-known that French corporate debt is even bigger than the US as a proportion of GDP.

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This is an excellent proposal. It would need to be matched with the policy consistency needed to see big projects through to completion and not the political vacillation we have seen on the HS2 project. #industrialstrategy #infrastructure

A major sticking point for some people around this is the sunk cost fallacy. I remember a professor in university telling the class of 19-22 year olds to give up on the idea of a train infrastructure because America had already invested too much in the highway and could never change (not a very smart idea to kill the budding interest of your students in the subject you're teaching, but that's a different post altogether). Many people believe that because you've invested a lot in a highway infrastructure, you cannot simply acknowledge the project didn't work as planned and do something different. This is a complicated process due to budgeting and finances, however it's incredibly important to acknowledge that when something is not working, it's not going to work better just because you do more of it. The industry needs more flexibility around course correction.

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In today’s Financial Times, I reference need for renewed focus on spending transformation within NI Executive and Civil Service. An embedded ethos of spending on prevention and ‘investing to save’ is key for future NI public finances https://lnkd.in/eECfXMvj

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