Mediamacro myth makers fight back

This may also be the first in a series! In a recent blog, David Smith of the Times writes “One of the most enduring claims about the British...

Macroeconomic innumeracy

Anthony Seldon is perhaps best known for his biographies of recent UK Prime Ministers. He had a column in the FT recently, which suggested...

What a fool I have been

When did the UK government’s Plan A (aka austerity) become Plan B? The table below show OBR estimates of UK cyclically adjusted underlying p...

Economic standards

I have used the following analogy before, but it remains pertinent. Imagine you are an academic scientist who is genuinely sceptical about c...