Eomics

Economics without the con

Sunday, 30 April 2017

In a galaxy far, far away

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As the EU starts to get serious about dealing with the prospect of the UK’s departure, this week's events suggested that the two sides a...
Monday, 24 April 2017

Et maintenant?

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With the first round of the French presidential election running exactly to script, the markets today breathed a huge sigh of relief. To re...
Sunday, 23 April 2017

Nothing new under the sun

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The British Conservative party has torn itself apart over the issue of the UK's EU membership throughout the last 40 years. Indeed, Guy ...
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Out of the blue

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Today’s announcement by Theresa May that she intends to call an election in the UK for 8 June was an Easter surprise that nobody anticipated...
Friday, 14 April 2017

Getting the message across

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They say you should never believe everything you read in the newspapers, although in today’s post-truth world I wonder whether you can beli...
Tuesday, 11 April 2017

The economics of flight overbooking (or how to avoid a beating)

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The recent news that a passenger was unceremoniously hauled off a United Airlines flight because the airline was unable to persuade enough...
Monday, 10 April 2017

Beware the economics of populism

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Venezuela is probably the worst managed economy in the world today. It has the largest oil reserves of any country, accounting for around 18...
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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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