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On a recent night out with some friends our conversation turned to the real effects the newly renamed recession is having on their companies. Over several glasses of wine, we each poured out our individual woes. Whilst all of us could identify with increased workloads, grumpy colleagues and a niggling sense of concern over the future it was interesting to see in the wake of the constant bad press exactly what is causing stress and outrage within the 30 something working population.

Jon Moulton talks about the current state of private equity funding and how it needs to invest for the long term.

I attended a very useful session yesterday run by the Cranfield University School of Management on ‘Marketing and Sales in a recession’. I was doubly interested as COA Solutions is running a similar event in September, only this time aimed at financial executives with a slightly more upbeat title, ‘How to prosper in a downturn’.

Recession – it’s now pretty official – the Bank of England has finally started using the dreadful phrase in their Inflation Report.