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Worries about the UK current account deficit

Geoff Riley

25th December 2014

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The BBC's Robert Peston is growing increasingly concerned about the widening deficit on the UK's current account of the balance of payments.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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