Eomics

Economics without the con

Showing posts with label central banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label central banks. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 April 2021

Soddy's Law

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The name Frederick Soddy may not mean much to many people. Historians of science might recall that he collaborated with Ernest Rutherford o...
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Monday, 29 April 2019

The market for central bank governors

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The search for a successor to BoE Governor Carney kicked off last week, ahead of his contract expiry next January, whilst jockeying for the...
Wednesday, 18 April 2018

A shot across the bows

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It is now eleven years since the first indications of the looming financial crisis began appearing on our radar screens. In the summer of 20...
Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Asynchronicity

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Comments by new Fed chair Jay Powell in Congressional testimony, suggesting that US interest rates might rise more rapidly than the markets...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Central banks and the digital currency revolution

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In previous posts, I have argued that Bitcoin is a bubble which looks destined to burst. But bubble or no, the ideas underpinning digital c...
Sunday, 8 October 2017

Monetary policy complications

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A couple of months ago I wrote a post ( here ) which posed the question whether we knew what was really driving inflation. Last month, Claud...
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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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