Macroeconomics: UK economy, IB Economics

Still, at least we can prepare for 2021 in optimistic fashion...ah, wait.

It seems that the government are asking pharmaceutical firms to have six weeks of post-Brexit drug stockpiles because it is adamant that there will be no extension to the transition period. I would hate for there to be another wave of coronavirus then; it would leave the government looking pretty foolish.

A rather unusual aside about the contribution of the shadow economy to GDP. It appears to be the case that spending on prostitution and drugs has fallen - but is this a result of lower prices or changing consumer tastes?

It is suspected that the former is the case. 

Another example of the costs of Brexit - with treatments for epilepsy, bipolar disorder and neurological pain not capable of being stockpiled and thus likely to be in short supply in the event of a no-deal Brexit.