Eomics

Economics without the con

Sunday, 27 November 2016

Life at the bottom in the 21st century

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It says in The Bible that the poor are always with us. As the fallout from the bursting of the Great Debt Bubble continues to spread, we...
Saturday, 26 November 2016

More than just the leaves aflutter

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In the course of the last week, the new Chancellor Philip Hammond presented his Autumn Statement to parliament. As a general rule, this inte...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Modern macroeconomics: Is it really so bad?

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I have to confess that I have long been torn between the intellectual pursuit of academic economics and the uselessness of much of the outpu...
Sunday, 20 November 2016

Brexit: A Bayesian view

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The Reverend Thomas Bayes was an English clergyman who lived in the first half of the eighteen century, and who also happened to be a mathem...
Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Boiled frogs and QE

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For a long time central bankers told us that quantitative easing was the best thing since sliced bread. It would, so the conventional wisdom...
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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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