Eomics

Economics without the con

Thursday, 31 December 2020

The year from hell

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You do not need me to tell you that 2020 was the year from hell . It will go down in history as the year of the pandemic – the biggest black...
Monday, 28 December 2020

Over the line

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Four and a half years after the Brexit referendum, the UK and EU finally reached a trade agreement originally described as the easiest in hu...
Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Bad but by no means the worst

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By the standards of our lifetimes this will be one of the more unusual Christmases we have ever experienced. Large parts of Europe are livi...
Monday, 21 December 2020

There may be trouble ahead

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It's not what was done ... I have never known such a sombre mood in the UK as that which prevails today. As if 2020 has not been bad eno...
Friday, 18 December 2020

Something of value

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The Reith Lectures are a long-standing tradition in British radio broadcasting, running back to 1948, in which a leading figure of the day ...
Thursday, 10 December 2020

Machine learning: A primer

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Last month I had the pleasure of taking part in a virtual conference organised by the Bank of England on big data and machine learning (ML)....
Sunday, 6 December 2020

Five to midnight

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The game of chicken continues …   It is eight years since I responded to a query from the FT asking whether we should worry that the UK mig...
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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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