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The economic cake: why we can’t both have it and eat it

ANALYSIS: The incompatible demands of OCR, GDP growth rate, employment figures, and inflation value.

NBR columnist Christoph Schumacher speaks with Jonathan Mitchell.

When I started learning English, I didn’t understand the popular idiomatic proverb: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Of course, you can eat your cake if you have one. It’s the whole point of a cake – being eaten. Following the discussions after the recent release of the OCR,

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Christoph Schumacher Wed, 10 May 2023
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