Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash … - Frances O'Grady

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Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you. . . out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

Frances O'Grady

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

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