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Ed Conway

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What are the best ever economics songs?

What are the best ever economics songs?

The Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane, reckons economists should pay more attention to the music people are listening to on Spotify [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/speech/2018/will-big-data-keep-its-promise-speech-by-andy-haldane.pdf] [pdf]. He wonders whether that might provide better clues for how optimistic or

Jeremy Hunt channels Enoch Powell

Jeremy Hunt channels Enoch Powell

The latest rumour going around Whitehall [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/24/jeremy-hunt-open-introducing-nhs-tax-say-cross-party-group-mps/] is that Jeremy Hunt might favour converting National Insurance into a specific NHS tax – or at least devoting more of it to funding health, an idea being kicked around by some MPs [https://news.

Does China really have bigger trade barriers on cars than the US?

Where better to start than with this: > When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%

The really embarrassing thing about Labour's police plans is not Diane Abbott's gaffe. It's that they simply don't add up

The news coverage about Labour’s plans, announced today, to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers [http://news.sky.com/story/labour-promises-10000-more-bobbies-on-the-beat-10859910] , has been dominated by the agonising interview given by Diane Abbott to LBC’s Nick Ferrari, in which the shadow Home Secretary seemed to forget how much

An illustrated history of the pound sterling 1791-2016

I tweeted this [https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/748137482013786112] the other week but thought it might also be useful to plonk onto the website. An annotated chart of the pound vs the US dollar over the past few centuries. Click on it for a bigger version.

Two hours...

Two hours...

That was how long the Chancellor’s message of reassurance to market investors lasted today. George Osborne resurfaced at the Treasury just after 7am to tell investors that the UK economy remains strong, to assure them and households that he would take all necessary contingency plans to deal with the

Anatomy of a scare story

The frustrating thing (well one of the many frustrating things) about the EU referendum campaign is that all too often some of the numbers spurted out by both sides simply aren’t interrogated. There are a few eye-catching exceptions: the Government’s claim we’ll all be £4,300 worse