Prices are soaring. Gas and electricity prices are up. Petrol is up. Food is up. And many people are feeling the pinch. No-one knows how bad things might get. Some experts are predicting the biggest economic crisis for many years. Mass bankruptcies and repossessions; widespread unemployment; runaway inflation; the collapse of many industries; a state unable to pay for its hospitals, police-force or schools or to maintain social security benefits: many observers see all these things on the horizon. They may be right, they may be wrong. But already …
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