Eomics

Economics without the con

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Inflation Report post mortem

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The Bank of England’s decision to keep interest rates on hold today may have been what the markets were ultimately expecting – after having ...
Saturday, 5 May 2018

Immigration as a problem of time inconsistency

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Time inconsistency is a much-used term in economics and describes a situation where a policymaker announces a policy option only to rene...
Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Choose your enemies wisely

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As the Brexit clock ticks closer to March 2019 the UK political landscape is increasingly fissiparous as Theresa May tries to appease both s...
Monday, 30 April 2018

Beware the big data rush

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Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane today gave a speech entitled Will Big Data Keep Its Promise?   in which he assessed the contrib...
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Saturday, 28 April 2018

Brexit: According to custom(s)

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Discontent with the Brexit process has gathered momentum in recent weeks as the EU Withdrawal Bill is debated in the House of Lords. There a...
Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Silence can be golden

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If you had asked me a week ago, I would have said that a rate hike of 25 bps by the Bank of England in May was a high probability event. Ho...
Wednesday, 18 April 2018

A shot across the bows

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It is now eleven years since the first indications of the looming financial crisis began appearing on our radar screens. In the summer of 20...
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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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