Don’t Panic! (At least not about inflation)
Concerns about high inflation – a key narrative underpinning recent financial volatility – are highly suspect As financial markets have been showing their panicky side in the last few weeks, we’ve […]
Inflation
Forecasting inflation amid uncertainty: have we forgotten the dog and the frisbee?
The Bank of England’s inflation forecasts in the period since the Brexit vote have been largely inaccurate – is this […]
Domestic fortification and the home of neoliberalism
Homeownership and the increasing fortification of the domestic home are linked by our increasingly neoliberal society. Home goes to the […]
The Coming Crisis: the monetary policy credibility trap
In the latest blog in SPERI’s series on ‘The Coming Crisis’ Jacqueline Best asks: what do central banks and governments […]
How sustainable are the Anglo-American recoveries?
While both countries have experienced comparatively strong growth, divergence on the current account ensures that the UK’s situation looks much […]
The government is right on pensioner protection – but for the wrong reasons
Critics of the protection of pensioner benefit entitlements are playing into George Osborne’s hands The politics of austerity appears to […]
The political difficulties of ‘Corbynomics’
The problems are not really the economics at all, but much more the politics A month ago nobody had heard […]
Towards full employment in the UK?
George Osborne has promised full employment, but closer examination suggests a continuing lack of ambition In 1991 Norman Lamont, Chancellor […]