mainly macro

Newspaper day. In the Guardian I have a piece that looks at how we should regard any tax cuts that Boris Johnson may announce as part of ...

It now looks like May will not get a chance to put her deal to parliament for a third time today, thanks to a ruling from Speaker Bercow. ...

Non-economists with no interest in modelling techniques can skip to paragraph starting 'How is this all related to Brexit'. I pro...

Chris Giles had an article in the FT yesterday about the UK’s continuing dreadful productivity performance, and the implications this migh...

The Bank are warning of imminent rises in interest rates. As Chris Giles points out, we have been here before, and before that, but that s...

This by Fraser Nelson in the Spectator (HT Tim Harford) starts well: “Sometimes, George Osborne’s dishonesty is simply breathtaking.” Who ...

An article in the Financial Times recently said of me: “He has opposed deficit reduction when the economy was weak and when it was strong....

This may also be the first in a series! In a recent blog, David Smith of the Times writes “One of the most enduring claims about the ...

Not part of the mediamacro myths series, but in a way related. Chris Giles has a recent FT article where he describes how non-Greek po...

Chris Giles says today that “there is a gap [between Labour and Conservatives plans] of more than £30bn a year in public spending by the e...

The Chancellor gives a huge pre-election bribe to the moderately wealthy over 65s, and describes the fact that everyone who can is trying ...