mainly macro

After my Thursday post and New Statesman piece , I had a lot of comments that said something along the lines of: I see what you are saying...

The snake-oil salesmen There are many similarities between Brexit and Trump. They are both authoritarian movements, where authority e...

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...

As it has become clear to the non-FT/Economist media, and as it has been clear to economists for a long time, productivity growth is a far ...

In a footnote in a recent post , I noted the recent controversy over a BMJ paper relating changes in the English mortality trend to auster...