UK Chancellor Shelves Spring Statement Stimulus as $80 Oil and $20 Trillion Global Debt Pressures Mount
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will limit the March 26 Spring Statement to procedural updates, avoiding new spending as UK debt reaches levels officials call unsustainable. Oil prices above $80 from the Iran conflict threaten to add 0.5 percentage points to UK inflation, while the U.S. faces Social Security funding shortfalls exceeding $20 trillion—part of a global fiscal squeeze hitting advanced economies.
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