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EconomicsUK is the personal website of David Smith, the Economics Editor of The Sunday Times, London. His easy to understand writing and clearly defined causes and consequences makes this an accessible blog for beginners.
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4M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. Readers may know, if they wake early enough, that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) releases some statistics, on topics ..read more
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5M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. The chancellor, his party under intense pressure in the polls, trying to offer some cheer to his fractious MPs and ..read more
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5M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. It is no secret that one of the themes of this week’s autumn statement will be that the chancellor wants ..read more
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5M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. It has been hard to ignore the actions of central banks, even after a week in which the Bank of England ..read more
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6M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. Unlike a month ago, the latest inflation figures did not set many pulses racing. They showed the headline rate unchanged at ..read more
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6M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. This is a great time to be leader of the opposition and to be shadow chancellor. The polls are going well ..read more
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6M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. A few days ago, I made a short visit to Belfast. Unlike the lorries now entering Northern Ireland from the mainland ..read more
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7M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. The anniversary of the most disastrous set of fiscal announcements in recent British history – the mini budget of September 23 ..read more
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7M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. There was a time when a Bank of England decision not to raise interest rates was so commonplace that it barely ..read more
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7M ago
My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. We are approaching the anniversary of one of the strangest periods in recent UK economic and political history. I am not ..read more