Sunday, 8 March 2015

Austerity: Nick Rowe's not so silly question

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Nick Rowe has a silly question for those who oppose austerity. Actually he really means it is a question involving silly numbers: would yo...
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Friday, 6 March 2015

A campaign based on ignorance

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If facts had anything to do with it, the economy should be the Conservatives’ weak point in the forthcoming UK election. Since 2010 we have...
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Thursday, 5 March 2015

Deflation, inflation, oil prices and asymmetries

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When both headline and core inflation rose above target after the financial crisis, helped by rising oil prices, the Fed and Bank of Englan...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Fiscal policy, correlations and causation

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I have a sense that Paul Krugman wrote this post out of exasperation with those who cherry pick data to draw incorrect conclusions about t...
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Sunday, 1 March 2015

Eurozone fiscal policy - still not getting it

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The impact of fiscal austerity on the Eurozone as a whole has been immense. In my recent Vox piece , I did a back of the envelope calculati...
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Saturday, 28 February 2015

Tuition fees: a last throw as the election slips away

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Mainly for those interested in the forthcoming UK general election I do not remember much from my university days, but I remember one m...
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Friday, 27 February 2015

Disaster

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William Keegan, while discussing my NIER article on the UK government’s macro record, writes: After the collapse of output of some 6-7...
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