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Ryan Bridge: We need to believe in our economy
We're cruising towards 2% growth off the back of these two bits of good news on the economy.
2% is not rocketing along, but it's not stuck in a ditch either.
And given the war, and diesel, and Trump, some (i.e. the Government) might even say it's fantastic.
As you know, we follow the data quite closely on this show – many of you are businesspeople, farmers, small business owners, do-ers in the economy and want to know what's going on.
Manufacturing hit it out the park and now services, two-thirds of our growth, is expanding.
The key missing ingredient is consumer spending – discretionary…
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