mainly macro

  Is this Labour government right to make achieving growth so central to its missions ? Does making higher growth a central priority require...

  The UK macroeconomy was one of the big stories of the previous two weeks, so you might think this blog post should have covered it earlier...

  In my last post of 2024 I noted that the main political battles in many countries would be between on the one hand socially conservative ...

  As I and many others noted after Trump won, real median household income didn’t grow nearly as much under Biden as it did during Trump’s ...

As this will be the last blog until 2025, I thought I’d make it a bit more substantive than usual. Normal service will be resumed in 2025. ...