mainly macro

Suppose a large Eurozone country – let’s call it France - decided that it needs to substantially increase its minimum wage in order to redu...

What I had expected to happen was that the Conservatives would keep to the line that spending had to be reduced because debt and the defici...

My recent posts on the Eurozone and German attitudes have attracted a lot of hostile comments, and generated a lively debate. Sometimes I f...

Just a short addition to today’s post . I had assumed that the Conservatives’ macroeconomic pitch for the next election was going to be bas...

This last month I wrote my most widely read post in this blog’s nearly three years existence. Over 20,000 read this on Scottish independen...

Sometimes when I write about the Eurozone, I get comments about how inappropriate it is to apply ‘an anglo-saxon model’ of how that economy...

What was the most important point about Ed Miliband’s speech to the last Labour party conference before the election? The UK media had no d...