Eomics

Economics without the con

Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Accounting for tail risks

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Today’s announcement by the Fed of a 50 bps rate cut – the first intra-meeting rate cut since 2008 – is an indication of the extent t...
Saturday, 29 February 2020

Reflections on a market rout

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Many people have remarked about the end of days feel in the markets. Here in the UK, many regions of the country have experienced unpreceden...
Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Going viral

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I noted a few weeks ago that the coronavirus, now known as COVID-19, was likely to make its presence felt in the markets sooner or later an...
Saturday, 22 February 2020

Priti vacant

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The Home Secretary, Priti Patel , sits on the right-wing of the Conservative Party and can best be described as socially illiberal (see this...
Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Frost in Brussels

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I am far from sure whether yesterday’s keynote speech in Brussels by David Frost , Boris Johnson’s policy adviser on Europe, was an ope...
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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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