The monetary policy committee met and raised interest rates to 1%. Well below inflation, but still a welcome increase. Call me old fashioned, but I do believe real interest rates should be...
I gave a talk on the cost of living crisis to Cardiff students in March, looking at the recent past and possible future of inflation in the UK. Here is the lecture...
In modern English, the Christian saviour is given the name “Jesus”. The origins of how the English came to use and spell the name in this fashion is a fascinating story. It...
I write this back in October 2021, a summary of the data. We have over 340 months of month on month or “mom” inflation since January 1993, during which inflation has remained...
A slightly extended version of part of my chapter “the Joy of Economics” from Surfing economics published in 2002. Subtitle: There are no zero’s in the Leontief Inverse. To an economist who...
“a natural sanctity in our minds…which favours honourable and upright actions and condemns wrong deeds…by a kind of inner law” Pelagius is the first British author for whom we have surviving literature....
Published Richard Strauss Society Newsletter. April 2017, London (63): pages 5–8. (This was later used as the basis for part of the Wikipedia page on the opera). Stefan Zweig came up with...