Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 244 (11th April 2025)
The US administration’s announcement of trade tariffs imposed across the globe will have a significant effect on international economies and trade dynamics. UK businesses need to rapidly take stock, assess the implications and think about the mitigation strategies open to them.
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Friday Reading Edition 242 (28th March 2025)
What were the decisions and trade-offs made by Chancellor Reeves?
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Friday Reading Edition 242 (28th March 2025)
The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) update, the Chancellor’s response, and what comes next.
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Friday Reading Edition 242 (28th March 2025)
"Faltering growth leads to difficult choices” says Yael Selfin, Chief Economist at KPMG UK.
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Friday Reading Edition 242 (28th March 2025)
What did we learn from the chancellor's 'update'?
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Friday Reading Edition 242 (28th March 2025)
The Chancellor wants to only make major tax and spending announcements once a year, in the Budget. It was therefore expected that the Spring Statement would be limited, with the Chancellor largely responding to the OBR’s second forecast of the financial year.
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Friday Reading Edition 242 (28th March 2025)
The latest update of the OBR’s forecasts was published on 26 March in the March 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook. Read the Executive summary for the key messages of their forecast or the full report.
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Friday Reading Edition 233 (24th January 2025)
Trump's return to the White House is a key topic of discussion in Davos given he has promised to pursue ambitious shifts to US policy that will likely have wide-ranging impacts on the global economy. These include imposing steep tariffs on other major economies, reassessing long-held military and diplomatic alliances, reforming multilateral institutions and rolling back an array of US regulations.
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Friday Reading Edition 232 (17th January 2025)
As we enter 2025, the global outlook is increasingly fractured across geopolitical, environmental, societal, economic and technological domains. State-based armed conflict is the top risk for 2025.
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Friday Reading Edition 232 (17th January 2025)
As the UK looks ahead to more growth in 2025, the year could bring renewed challenges from a higher pace of inflation, increased trade frictions, and a heightened state of economic uncertainty.
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