Eomics

Economics without the con

Saturday, 11 March 2017

Back to fiscal basics

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Fiscal rules sound good to economists and are eagerly seized on by politicians as a good way to appear responsible when it comes to matters...
Tuesday, 7 March 2017

We're not living beyond our means!

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As a general rule I am not one for predicting what the Chancellor might say during his budget speech, but I would not be at all surprised if...
Sunday, 5 March 2017

Running out of road on austerity

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Next Wednesday will see the occasion of the annual UK parliamentary set piece otherwise known as the presentation of the annual budget. The ...
Saturday, 4 March 2017

Brexit: More on the exit costs

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It has widely been suggested that the European Commission will try and extract a high price from the UK in terms of the Brexit bill when it ...
Tuesday, 28 February 2017

I robot, you taxman

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When in 1940 Isaac Asimov wrote the first in a collection of stories which was later published as “I, Robot” he could barely have dreamed h...
Sunday, 26 February 2017

Taking Europe's temperature

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For all that many of the claims made by the UK Brexiteers are absurd, there is a rising tide of dissatisfaction across the whole of Europe ...
Saturday, 25 February 2017

Brexit: The cost of divorce

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One of the motivations advanced by Brexit supporters for the UK to leave the EU is that it will be able to save billions of pounds each yea...
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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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