Battery prices, which were above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. By 2023, average prices will be close to $100/kWh.
Learn more from our 2019 Battery Price Survey here: https://t.co/IRGreo1LGE pic.twitter.com/LvkMcRMaaG
— BloombergNEF (@BloombergNEF) December 3, 2019
The results of the YouGov #GE2019 MRP model are finally here:
Con – 359 seats / 43% vote share
Lab – 211 / 32%
SNP – 43 / 3%
LD – 13 / 14%
Plaid – 4 / <1%
Green – 1 / 3%
Brexit Party – 0 / 3%Conservative majority of 68https://t.co/uvnl8LNj7f pic.twitter.com/Iul6HDtaP3
— YouGov (@YouGov) November 27, 2019
My first piece for Ipsos takes a broad look at our issues index over the past 10 years. The upshot: Brexit and the NHS up, immigration and economy down. https://t.co/qz5d1eYM2m
Built with @f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h pic.twitter.com/MhjZynlpJv
— Becky Pinnington (@beckypinners) November 22, 2019
Must-read report – The shifting shape of UK tax: Charting the changing size and shape of the UK tax system , by @adamcorlett https://t.co/dDjfJx9ri9 pic.twitter.com/knEKpSQBre
— ResolutionFoundation (@resfoundation) November 14, 2019
Britain on the brink of returning to ‘peak pay’ for the first time in 12 years – but the scale of our pay downturn still leaves average pay £138 a week off its pre-crisis trajectory. pic.twitter.com/G69NgIp1Vb
— ResolutionFoundation (@resfoundation) November 7, 2019
Are you are one of the 4.8m passengers who uses the London Underground every day? An FT investigation found that the Tube is by far the most polluted part of the city. Find out which lines are worst: https://t.co/LbWtNF12QG pic.twitter.com/0ODtkcY9tK
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) November 5, 2019
Median pay for full-time employees reached £585 a week in April 2019, up 2.9% on April 2018.
However, after adjusting for inflation, it was still £18, or 2.9%, below the 2008 peak of £603 https://t.co/gIxLafbY2o pic.twitter.com/tTqv73s0xt
— Office for National Statistics (@ONS) October 29, 2019
An economist explains how to go carbon neutral in our lifetime https://t.co/bennfMWrMl #environment #economics pic.twitter.com/tRjCWoeH65
— World Economic Forum (@wef) October 16, 2019
Latest from @ONS: “Labour productivity has continued the weak trajectory it has followed over the last year … with only a couple of relatively small sectors contributing positively. This confirms the broad base of the UK’s productivity challenges.” https://t.co/H3WZcKVwJA pic.twitter.com/w6Yu15vdg9
— Chief-Exec.com (@Chief_Exec_com) October 8, 2019
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) October 2, 2019
Location, location, location? Brexit and the predictive power of house prices, by @benwansell https://t.co/yNSyIiHSxU pic.twitter.com/pftaGthHdT
— Red Box (@timesredbox) September 11, 2019
Highest employment level ever recorded in the euro area and the EU in Q2 2019: 241.4 million employed in the EU, of which 160.0 million in euro area https://t.co/MXIGfqQfB1 pic.twitter.com/eKQDuxdAE4
— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) September 6, 2019
SNAP POLL: By 47% to 27% Brits say it is unacceptable for the government to suspend Parliament in the run up to Brexit https://t.co/R3fi0E2VDi pic.twitter.com/L1BYkBua4M
— YouGov (@YouGov) August 28, 2019
While all economic well-being measures improved in the quarter ending March 2019, people’s personal well-being showed very little change in the UK in the year ending March 2019; however, people’s expectations for the economy for the year ahead are that it will worsen. @ONS pic.twitter.com/rk1UlblK2g
— Chief-Exec.com (@Chief_Exec_com) August 12, 2019
The North East remained the region of England with the highest age-standardised mortality rate. London remained the lowest for both males and females https://t.co/xsp5s3ZO0q pic.twitter.com/eft0WzEA9n
— Office for National Statistics (@ONS) August 6, 2019
Fewer than half of Britons (45%) expect to ever earn £30,000 a year or more. Our new study looks at the nation’s maximum earnings expectations https://t.co/hbjHm5r9zO pic.twitter.com/H6JfcCXWbH
— YouGov (@YouGov) July 26, 2019
Public service productivity also fell in Q1 2019 as growth in inputs exceeded growth in output – although both inputs and output growth were high by historical standards https://t.co/V5rsxIp53Y pic.twitter.com/tpSzQCvqKF
— ONS (@ONS) 5 July 2019
Incredibly, 54% of Conservative party members would prefer their party to be destroyed rather than fail to achieve Brexit. https://t.co/KqLWAPHXij
— Chief-Exec.com (@Chief_Exec_com) 18 June 2019
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12th February 2017

Residential property prices (real) since the new millennium have followed different paths in different countries. Ireland has seen a rollercoaster ride and the US less so, though both have seen prices start to recover in recent years. Prices in the UK stuttered around the global financial crisis (GFC) before regaining their momentum. In Italy and Russia property prices continued to fall after the GFC, quite steeply for the latter. Meanwhile, in Germany prices run counter current, slowly descending into the GFC before recovering strongly thereafter. As property asset values affect economic sentiment, the chart reveals likely differences between the selected countries. Source: OECD Analytical house price indicators, February 12

The OECD PIAAC programme conducts a Survey of Adult Skills in a number of countries. Literacy and numeracy skills tend to have a small peak between the ages of 25-34, before markedly declining for older age groups. For the UK population this decline with age is tiny. However, for literacy and numeracy skills, the UK 16-24 year age group has now been overtaken by those of the same age in many other comparable economies. Source: Skills Matter, OECD Publishing, June 2016.

This chart shows how average earnings have changed in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and United States, with all currencies converted into $ using a purchasing power parity (PPP) adjustment that accounts for differences in the cost of household goods in the four countries. Between 2000 and 2015, annual earnings in the UK peaked at about 2007, whereas earnings in the other three counties have seen a slow but steady rise. Source: OECD

Disposable income is the final income left after taxes have been taken and benefits have been reimbursed, and the chart shows the five quintiles of disposable income from the lowest income fifth to the highest. Here we see that over the nine years to 2016 the lowest income households have seen their real disposable income rise by 13.2 per cent while the highest paid households have yet to reach the disposable income they had in 2007. The 60 per cent of households between these extremes show an intermediate effect. Office of National Statistics, January 22