Eomics

Economics without the con

Monday, 8 January 2018

MiFID II: End of the road or just a bend?

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For those working in European financial services the MiFID II (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) legislation, which came into eff...
Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Some thoughts on the 2018 outlook

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One of the anniversaries you may have missed was the bicentenary of the first publication of the novel Frankenstein , which first saw the l...
Sunday, 31 December 2017

2017 in review

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After an unpredictable 2016, 2017 was unable to live up to that level of excitement – and I for one am extremely thankful for that. From a m...
Friday, 29 December 2017

Generating economic policy buy-in

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Just before Christmas, the FT commentator Gideon Rachman penned a column which argued very strongly that “ Economics is – or should be – p...
Saturday, 23 December 2017

The costs (and benefits) of Christmas

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According to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation , the average American plans to spend $967.13 on gifts during the 2017 hol...
Thursday, 21 December 2017

You say you want a revolution

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It has been a tumultuous year for those of us who spend a lot of time looking at the British economic and political scene. Recall that ...
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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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