At the City of London Regulators' dinner at the Mansion House, a deputy governor of the Bank of England was positively lyrical about how the UK was faring after cutting ties with Brussels.
The warnings from business leaders have simply been ignored. Rachel Reeves appears certain to go ahead with her plan to increase the minimum wage, come what may.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, now the Office for National Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate has risen to 5 per cent, the highest for four years.
Be in no doubt: Rachel Reeves' second Budget, which will tax the so-called 'working people' of this country until the pips squeak, is condemning us all to an ever-accelerating economic doom loop.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves' much-repeated mantra that they are on the side of 'working people' has been shattered by the ongoing surge in sickness benefits and joblessness.
Two growth-destroying Budgets and multiple U-turns by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves have sapped confidence and crippled investment - the keys to future growth.
The seemingly inexorable rise in the prices of homes, whether in the grandest mansions or former council flats, has invariably led to fevered talk of hotspots and gazumping and venal estate agents.
Economics, it has to be said, is rarely Labour's strong suit. The party's Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, betrayed his ignorance of matters financial some weeks ago.
On the same day that Instagram and Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube parent Google were found guilty of damaging the mental health of young people, chieftains were being garlanded.
