Eomics
Economics without the con
Tuesday, 6 September 2016
It’s dusk in the second age of reason …
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… is a line from Ian McEwan’s latest novel “Nutshell.” As a description of the depressing state of public debate on many of the key contemp...
Monday, 5 September 2016
Skirmishes in the Brexit phoney war
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It is increasingly evident that Theresa May’s July comment that “Brexit means Brexit” was simply a device to buy some time over the summer i...
Sunday, 4 September 2016
It was twenty years ago today ...
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It dawned on me this morning that it is twenty years since I packed myself off to Germany to start a new job. Two whole decades! As I refle...
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
UK: The immigration situation
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It is now commonly accepted that immigration was the single most important topic in the UK’s EU referendum. The level of vitriol generated b...
Monday, 29 August 2016
Interest rates: Absolute zero
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The Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole Symposium is closely scrutinised by market watchers for any indications of changes in the Fed’s policy ...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Brexit: An economist strikes back
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One of the reasons for starting this blog was to counter some of the popular misconceptions associated with economics. Last week, for insta...
Saturday, 20 August 2016
The best laid plans ...
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Economic plans set out by politicians ahead of an election are probably not worth much more than a cursory analysis, but that does not ...
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