Eomics

Economics without the con

Sunday, 3 September 2017

Dawning realisation

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The third round of Brexit negotiations, which started this week, has not gone well. Michel Barnier has called on the UK to start "negot...
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

How to spot a fake

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They say that if you can fake sincerity you've got it made. These days it's fake news we worry about. But it is rare that anyone goe...
Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Their generation

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It is now 10 years since the first indications of the looming financial crisis began appearing on our radar screens and its aftermath was th...
Friday, 25 August 2017

Plenty to (re)moan about

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Events of recent days have confirmed what many of us thought all along: the UK government's original position on Brexit is untenable. A...
Wednesday, 23 August 2017

The economic benefits of Brexit (or how to oversell your case)

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Patrick Minford is a heavyweight academic economist whose work on macro modelling is first rate. He is also the front man for the group Econ...
Tuesday, 22 August 2017

How should we remunerate politicians?

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Many of us spend a lot of time bashing politicians – sometimes fairly, sometimes not – but it cannot be denied that the job which they do in...
Friday, 18 August 2017

Not pleasing anyone any of the time

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One of the great ironies of the modern information economy is that we have more facts at our disposal than ever before, yet we are also subj...
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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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