Tips on the economy from top expert
This week’s 2025 conference guest speaker ‘takeaway’ blog comes from leading economist Roger Martin-Fagg.
Roger, who specialises in making economics accessible for everyone, presented to members on Tuesday, January 28, and shared his knowledge to help delegates create their 2025 strategies.
Back by popular demand
Roger was a returning speaker, back by popular demand, who also has spoken at our conferences in 2014, 2018 and 2023.
He specialises in making economics accessible for non-economists, so is an ideal contributor to the topical discussions currently being had in garden centres nationwide.
Here are the key takeaways from his presentation:
- The UK budget puts more money in than it takes out
- Deregulation of the mortgage market will increase demand, sales and prices
- Trump has created significant global uncertainty
- Demographics demand that you will have to automate to grow
- The second half of 2025 will be significantly stronger that the first.
All about Roger
Roger is a Behavioural Economist. He began his career in the New Zealand Treasury, returned to the UK and worked in manpower planning mostly for BA. He then switched careers to teach postgraduates at Thames Valley University, before joining Henley Management College as a Client Director working with blue chip corporates for 23 years.
He is now independent and focuses mostly on SMEs and the challenges they face. He has a reputation for broadly accurate forecasts; he predicted the great crash and post Covid inflation.