Eomics

Economics without the con

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

The economics of Bake Off

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Those of you not in the UK may wonder what the relevance of a popular BBC television programme has to do with economics, but please bear...
Saturday, 24 September 2016

Labour pains

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The announcement that Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour Party leader here in the UK reflects the profoundly depressing state into...

All the way with the BoJ

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The Bank of Japan is nothing if not innovative. After all, it was the BoJ which first attempted a policy of quantitative easing in 2001, wh...
Tuesday, 20 September 2016

A world turned upside down

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An asset manager recently told me that their fund has turned away clients on the grounds that they will not be able to guarantee investor r...
Sunday, 18 September 2016

On (Hinkley) Point

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As I suspected would be the case, the UK government last week went ahead with its plan to approve the Hinkley Point nuclear power station. ...
Saturday, 17 September 2016

What a state

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This week’s State of the Union address by European Commission President Juncker contained an admission that the EU faces an existential cri...
Tuesday, 13 September 2016

With friends like these ...

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I realise that Brexit-related posts are mounting up on this blog, but the Leavers provide such good ammunition to undermine their own case ...
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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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