Eomics

Economics without the con

Wednesday, 11 October 2017

A Nobel cause

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Economics is a social science and although many economists do not like to admit it, it is bracketed alongside disciplines such as anthropolo...
Sunday, 8 October 2017

Monetary policy complications

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A couple of months ago I wrote a post ( here ) which posed the question whether we knew what was really driving inflation. Last month, Claud...
Sunday, 1 October 2017

Public or private: The debate continues

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The debate on whether a free market or state enterprise is the superior form of economic governance is an old one which comes to the surfac...
Wednesday, 27 September 2017

Bombard(ier)ed by bad news

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The news that the Department of Commerce has proposed a 219% tariff on sales of Bombardier aircraft into the United States bodes ill for the...
Monday, 25 September 2017

Vox populi

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If Brexit was an earthquake which echoed throughout Europe then the performance of the AfD in yesterday’s German election is clearly one of ...
Sunday, 24 September 2017

Non-linearity in economics

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Gertjan Vlieghe is characterised as one of the more dovish members of the Bank of England MPC, so his recent speech in which he suggested t...
Saturday, 23 September 2017

Theresa and Florence

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Theresa May's speech in Florence yesterday was supposed to be the big one – a chance to articulate what Britain wants from Brexit. Perha...
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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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