'...the economy is healing.' Really?

[TooLateForAName]

From the Grauniad...

Guardian said:

Echoing an opinion likely to be supported by the chancellor, George Osborne, in a speech on Monday, defence secretary Hammond said: "You won't find anybody, hardly anybody in the business community or in the financial community, who thinks that the economy is doing right now what the data tell us it is doing. There is a mood that the economy is healing."

So, how many on here agree that the evidence is wrong and the economy is healing?


Anyone?

[TooLateForAName]

Well, here in North Yorks there are more empty shops/charity shops/pawnbrokers in Harrogate than there were.

I have to say that I see the upsurge in small startup shops as a bad sign. Many don't last more than a couple of months and I suspect that there are a lot of people putting redundancy money into self employment and coming badly a cropper.