Eomics

Economics without the con

Sunday, 4 January 2026

2026: TrAIumphalism

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If 2025 was the year when artificial intelligence escaped the laboratory and Donald Trump escaped political gravity, 2026 will see the conse...
Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Relative Claus

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It is ten minutes to departure time at the North Pole, and Alfie Smith is annoyed. Not existentially annoyed. Not haunted-by-the-weight-of-g...
Saturday, 29 November 2025

The 3Rs: Reeves, Revenues and Resentment

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I have said it many times before, but it is worth repeating that the on-the-day take of the UK Budget often misses much of the nuance. This ...
Thursday, 6 November 2025

Taxing times

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Following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech on 4 November, it appears that the government is considering breaking one of its manifesto pledge...
Monday, 1 September 2025

The silly season: A numbers game

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As August gives way to September and the media’s so-called “silly season” winds down, attention shifts to the return of football. With the ...
Friday, 25 July 2025

Rationality meets reality

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  The rational expectations (RE) revolution which swept through macroeconomics in the 1970s and 1980s has changed the way we think about man...
Monday, 7 July 2025

A rough start with worse to come

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Keir Starmer’s Labour government took office a year ago following an overwhelming election victory that consigned an unpopular Conservative ...
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Peter Dixon
This blog intends to take some of the con out of economics. As a macroeconomist working in the financial services industry, with many years of experience looking at markets and the economic conjuncture, I realise that economics is (as they say about football) often a game of opinions. These are mine.
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