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Carney's euro intervention - illustrated edition

Carney's euro intervention - illustrated edition

Mark Carney is a close friend and colleague of Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president. This is worth bearing in mind when considering the significance of his speech last night [http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/28/bank-england-governor-attacks-eurozone-austerity] , in which he urged certain eurozone nations to spend more

CPI drops to 15-year low

CPI drops to 15-year low

You can find the full release from the ONS here [http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_390953.pdf]. I make it the first time that the rate of CPI inflation has ever halved in a single month. Though admittedly it’s down from not much to not much at

The most expensive statistical mistake in history

The most expensive statistical mistake in history

What would you say if I told you that, due to a bizarre statistical anomaly UK taxpayers — you and me — were unnecessarily being charged £2bn more than we should be? You’d be pretty shocked, I imagine — particularly if you heard that these costs were almost certainly avoidable. And yet

Down, down, down. Eurozone prices on the plunge

Down, down, down. Eurozone prices on the plunge

Some say you can’t call it “deflation” until it’s become a chronic problem. But whatever you call it: deflation, disinflation, negative inflation, what we’ve learnt today is that prices across the eurozone are now falling on a year-on-year basis. The annual rate at which the single currency’

Britain: no longer a nation of homeowners

Britain: no longer a nation of homeowners

As I write in my column in today’s Times [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/columnists/edconway/article4309900.ece] [£], one of the landmark moments that happened this year (without anyone seeming to notice) was that Britain’s home ownership rate dropped beneath the EU average (for the pre-accession

2014 Mix

2014 Mix

This has been one of those hectic years – lots of working, lots of travelling. Which has meant not much time to put mixes together, hence why a whole 12 months have gone by since the last one. Nonetheless that’s given me even more time to think about what to

Forward Guidance: whatever happened to Mark Carney’s big idea?

Do you remember forward guidance? That’s OK, not to worry — not many others do either. It was the policy launched to enormous fanfare by Mark Carney when he became Bank of England Governor in the summer of 2013. It was about as simple a rule as one could expect