mainly macro

If you listen to the broadcast media, you will have almost certainly picked up the message that at some point in the near future the Chanc...

I normally publish posts in the first half of the week, but two separate attempts were overtaken by events, and they will have to wait for...

If you do not watch Carlos Maza’s short commentaries on the US media you should. Here is his latest, on why comparisons between the inves...

I didn’t see Andrew Neil’s interview with John McDonnell which seems to have started the media’s obsession with interest on government deb...

The (official) launch of Labour’s manifesto saw mediamacro on display in all its unabashed pre-Keynesian ignorance. The idea that we could ...

My last post was designed to show clearly that the UK has not been a strong economy since the Conservatives started running it. Now I would...

My last post talked about the gap between the macroeconomic narrative in the UK media (‘mediamacro’) and macroeconomic facts. The gap is c...

For the last several budgets/autumn statements I have agreed to write an immediate response for some media outlet, and have therefore felt ...

I'm glad Paul Krugman liked my General Theory of Austerity paper. But he wonders whether I might be missing something, in not explainin...

In a thoughtful piece , Paul Johnson of the IFS says that economists must take some of the blame for not getting our message across. In fac...

There is a lot of talk right now about an angry, mainly old working class who used Brexit as a way of kicking back at an establishment that...

Mike Berry explains in this article how the UK media began to see the increase in the deficit in 2009 as a serious problem, and sometimes ...

When I write about what I call mediamacro , which includes bad reporting of macroeconomic issues by the media, I often receive comments sug...