I hate to be pedantic (and no doubt this will mean I'll be labelled as one of those doomsters Kemi Badenoch is calling out here) but there's a few problems with the data the biz/trade sec is quoting here.
When you correct them, the picture looks a little different...
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The week that summed up the performative and inept nature of Brexit via Financial Times
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Surprised this paper title isn't 'Borjas was wrong'

(Immigration INCREASED the wages of less educated native workers.)
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Yet another cost of hard #Brexit buff.ly/3wdOU3A as we predicted buff.ly/3MHbCFd

Good interview with Prof Dieter Helm CBE on net zero buff.ly/3UC43F7 on The Rest Is Politics with Rory Stewart @CampbellClaret

Britain’s egregious Rwanda asylum bill via Financial Times
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On Tuesday the FTC issued a final rule that effectively bans noncompete clauses in US labor contracts. Given the wide-reaching impact, there has been (understandably) a lot of debate, and also some confusion. Two issues are particularly contentious.

The first is the economic…

Moore's Law vs Wright's Law? buff.ly/3xOJwEq Tim Harford misses that no. of semi-conductor R&D workers has risen 18-fold since '70s buff.ly/2UWuNjI Neither time nor production would've delivered this

An optimist’s guide to the next Labour government via Financial Times
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Immigrants and their kids: John Burn-Murdoch on the remarkable success of the UK.

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US moves to ban almost all noncompetes buff.ly/4dc8xK1 It's also a big issue in the UK buff.ly/3vU3NHZ

Our own (arguably more policy-relevant) recent report on labour market power would not have been possible without the work (and feedback) of those working at the academic frontier, like alan manning, Anna Stansbury or John Van Reenen.

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Columbia president Minouche Shafik at centre of campus turmoil via Financial Times
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How economists could make themselves more useful via Financial Times
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Good explainer on public investment by buff.ly/49S8oIS by the excellent Ben Zaranko Institute for Fiscal Studies

While Donald Trump sleeps  via Financial Times
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Support for finding the Lost Einsteins and Marie Curies buff.ly/2KrFmt1 through First-generation students buff.ly/3UujKhB @poid_lse Pissarides in campaign for restoring maintenance grants

Daniel Dennett obituary theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Europe still fails to make enough of its size — here’s how to fix that via Financial Times
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