mainly macro

Simon Tilford has a post where he explores the roots of Brexit in a kind of UK exceptionalism. He argues that “the underlying reason [for ...

There are two schools of thought about why Labour is adopting a confusing and conflicting position over Brexit which is almost the same as...

In its recent report on fiscal risks, the OBR talks a lot about all the shocks that could make the government debt to GDP ratio rise again...

An interesting disagreement occurred this week between Martin Sandbu and the Economist, which prompted a subsequent letter from Philippe ...

Economics students are taught from an early age that in the short run aggregate demand matters, but in the long run output is determined fr...

Ben Chu has a good article disposing of some of the nonsense ideas associated with austerity (which refuse to die, because they are useful...

I’ve written about the popularity of Labour’s manifesto, which should more accurately be described as expanding the state rather than endi...