Eomics

Over the years, prevailing economic orthodoxy has tended to follow fashions with policy makers pursuing a particular course of action only t...

In recent weeks the Bank of England has given the impression that it may be prepared to take interest rates into negative territory . ...

As the global economy recovered in the wake of the 2008-09 bust, many economists noted that central banks would have to raise interest rat...

The bond market world has moved into strange territory of late. Around one quarter of the debt issued by governments and companies is curr...

My views on the disadvantages of low interest rates have been set out on this blog over recent years and increasingly there are indications...

With interest rates having been so low for so long in the industrialised world, policymakers are increasingly waking up to the need to take ...

The Bank of England is widely expected to raise interest rates by 25 bps this week, taking them above 0.5% for the first time since March 20...

If you had asked me a week ago, I would have said that a rate hike of 25 bps by the Bank of England in May was a high probability event. Ho...

It is widely expected that the Bank of England will raise interest rates this week for the first time since 2007. There have been some influ...