Eomics

Economics without the con

Friday, 30 October 2020

A second wave comes crashing down

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Markets have been unsettled for some time about the prospect of a second Covid wave and they finally capitulated this week . The market coll...
Sunday, 25 October 2020

Learning to live with the economics of Covid

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Without any shadow of a doubt the biggest problem governments face at present is how to balance the benefits from measures to curb the pande...
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Thursday, 22 October 2020

The IMF and economic support: It's Mainly Fiscal

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On a day when the UK reported another eye-wateringly high level of government borrowing, one MP tweeted that “ the state of the public finan...
Sunday, 18 October 2020

Moody and petulant

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Over the course of recent months I have expressed concerns at the quality of governance, particularly in the UK, and nothing that has happen...
Tuesday, 13 October 2020

The last days of empire?

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Most of us are not privileged to witness major historical events at close hand. Even if we did, we would be unlikely to fully understand the...
Tuesday, 6 October 2020

How not to Excel

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The UK authorities continue to demonstrate imaginative ways to screw things up in ways which would be laughable were they not so serious. Th...
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Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Two Angry Men

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Those of you unfortunate enough to have watched the US Presidential (so-called) debate were witness to an event which gives democracy a bad...
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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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