Eomics

Economics without the con

Saturday, 30 July 2016

Stressful times

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This morning’s financial pages are full of coverage of the European bank stress tests , which were released yesterday evening. The good...
Wednesday, 27 July 2016

London calling

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As I write this, it is exactly four years since I was sitting in a restaurant watching the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London. ...
Monday, 25 July 2016

Farewell Danny Gabay

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They say that economists are accountants without the personality. That is clearly not something anyone can say about Danny Gabay , who ...
Sunday, 24 July 2016

Lies, damned lies and GDP: Part 2

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Andy Haldane, the BoE’s chief economist, always produces speeches which are worth a read and his latest, entitled Whose Recovery? is ...
Thursday, 21 July 2016

Lies, damned lies and GDP: Part 1

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Gross domestic product is both one of the most useful and most useless of economic statistics . It is undoubtedly one of the most versati...
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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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