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Is inflation good for people with Mortgages?

With interest rates rising, you often hear about the struggles faced by households with large mortgages and the “soaring cost of mortgages”. However, inflation is good for people with mortgages and if...

How the energy crisis will reduce UK GDP Growth, Productivity and Real Wages.

How does an increase in energy affect productivity and output in an economy such as the UK? In this brief note I adopt a national accounts framework to explain how productivity and...

What the MPC meeting May 5th tells us.

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...

UK Inflation in March 2022: where it came from and where it is going…..

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...

Month on Month inflation 1993-2021

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...

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Is inflation good for people with Mortgages?

How the energy crisis will reduce UK GDP Growth, Productivity and Real Wages.

What the MPC meeting May 5th tells us.

UK Inflation in March 2022: where it came from and where it is going…..

Month on Month inflation 1993-2021

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