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Ed Conway

Hi I'm Ed Conway and this is my website!

State of the housing market, 2015 edition

State of the housing market, 2015 edition

The English Housing Survey [https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey] is one of the best and most comprehensive surveys on the state of the housing market (by which I mean not house prices but trends in occupation, number of homes and so on). It was almost shut down as

So is this full employment?

So is this full employment?

It all started with a question.Why do our employment figures only go back to 1971?After all, if the latest data [http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/february-2016/statistical-bulletin.html] released by the ONS is to be believed, the employment rate is now, at 74.1%

Happy 1936, sorry 2016

Here’s something that isn’t often mentioned these days. The world economy is currently doing worse, seven and a half years after the crash, than it was at the same stage of the Great Depression. If at first that sounds improbable, consider the graph below, from a paper by

The Spending Review/Autumn Statement in two charts

I had planned to make this the story of the Autumn Statement and Spending Review in five charts, or maybe ten charts(we journalists tend to like to do things in round numbers) but I think you can actually tell the story in only two charts. Before we get onto

The most unfulfilled manifesto in history?

The most unfulfilled manifesto in history?

If the proposals tabled by Greece at yesterday’s Brussels summit are anything to go by, Syriza will have to make so many u-turns on its election promises that its 2015 manifesto may go down as the most unfulfilled in modern political history. On that basis, I’ve decided to

IMF crisis echoes

IMF crisis echoes

The economy in crisis. Capital markets in revolt. Half of all under-25 year olds out of work. A left-wing government in office, with Marxist ministers determined to re-nationalise every major industry. And a deeply unpopular bailout from the International Monetary Fund. No, I’m not talking about Greece today, but

Why is David Cameron so keen to talk about the possible collapse of the euro? Two theories

Why is David Cameron so keen to talk about the possible collapse of the euro? Two theories

Strange as this might sound, the most interesting thing about Downing Street’s decision to hold a meeting this morning [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11400234/David-Cameron-plans-contingencies-for-UK-Grexit-risks.html] on the prospect of a Greek euro exit has nothing to do with the meeting itself. As it happens, we’