Business paralysis has scope to be short-lived, as long as the outcome is not quite as bad as feared.
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For all the speculation, we don’t know what’s going to happen at the Budget. We have – broadly speaking – been told that it will hurt. This is having an unpleasant but unsurprising effect on the economy.