Eomics

Economics without the con

Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Cop out in Glasgow

›
Greta Thunberg and The Queen may represent different ends of the age spectrum but in recent days both have expressed irritation that world l...
Thursday, 28 October 2021

Not what it said on the tin

›
As I have noted many times before, UK budgets are a strange mixture of policy announcements and pantomime and they exist in their present f...
1 comment:
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

No expectations

›
Inflation remains one of the big items on the policy agenda with the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook devoting a considerable amount of ...
Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Hiding in plain sight

›
They say that if you are going to lie then you might as well lie big by distorting the truth in plain sight, and by so much that people cann...
Monday, 4 October 2021

The Labours of Keir Starmer

›
A few months ago I pondered on the fate of the centre left in Europe and suggested that it “ will struggle to remain relevant unless there ...
Sunday, 26 September 2021

15 rounds with reality

›
Leon Spinks was a former world boxing heavyweight champion who gained the title in 1978 by inflicting only the third ever defeat on an agein...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.