Eomics

Economics without the con

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Central banks face an inflation dilemma

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Over the course of recent weeks there has been a shift in the message communicated by monetary policy makers. The monetary authorities on t...
Friday, 23 June 2017

(Un)happy anniversary

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They say that time flies as you get older. That must make me positively ancient, as I can so vividly recall the events of 23-24 June 2016 a...
Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Austerity: A local government perspective

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Austerity has been very much in the UK public eye over recent weeks. It was a major topic during the election campaign but the tragic fire a...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Brexit: Same stuff, different day

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The UK’s Brexit negotiations may have kicked off yesterday but there is a depressing inevitability to it all. We know that the UK’s negotia...
Thursday, 15 June 2017

U-turn if you want to: Part 2

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I wrote a piece yesterday which indicated how the UK government’s position on Brexit is no longer tenable and needs to change. The extent t...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017

U-turn if you want to: Part 1

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The disastrous performance of the Conservative Party in last week's election has prompted a rethink of policy on both Brexit and fiscal...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

Why do pollsters get it wrong?

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Whilst the headline writers have spent the last two days poring over the entrails of the UK general election and what it means for the futur...
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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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