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Prices and consumption


Exploring the impact that the fluctuating costs of everyday essentials, such as food and fuel, can have on people’s living standards is a core part of our cost-of-living work.

Contacts

Charlie McCurdy

Economist
T: 0203 372 2981
E: charlie.mccurdy@resolutionfoundation.org
James Smith

James Smith

Research Director
T: 0203 372 2956
E: james.smith@resolutionfoundation.org
Events

Trading standards

How exposure to global trade shapes our living standards

Britain is an open economy, and has become more open over recent decades – despite the impact of Brexit and ‘slowbalisation’. But the quantity and type of goods and services…
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Publications

From merry Christmas to a messy new year

What 2024 has in store

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2024 is going to be messy, for our living standards not just politics. The past two years have been dominated by rising energy and food bills, with everyone affected. It…
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Events

Rising rents and rebounding wages

Where is Britain’s cost-of-living crisis heading?

Inflation is down, but Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is still very much with us. The legacy of previous price rises for energy and food are now combining with a new pressure:…
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Food for thought

The role of food prices in the cost of living crisis

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The cost of living crisis is often thought of as a cost of energy crisis. That is an understandable, but increasingly inadequate, view. In particular, it understates the growing role…
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Hoping and coping

How families were faring in March 2023

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Families in the UK found themselves in the midst of a cost of living crisis over the winter. Inflation has skyrocketed over the past year, with prices still over 10…
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Events

We need to talk about inflation

What history has to teach us about surging prices

Book launch event for We Need to Talk About Inflation by Stephen King From investors and academics, to governments and central banks, almost everyone had assumed high and persistent inflation…
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Still coping?

How families are faring as the cost-of-living crisis enters its second year

The UK’s cost-of-living crunch has entered its second year. While inflation should fall significantly in the coming months, the crisis is far from over. Prices are rising more slowly rather…
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