Archives
- January 2014
- November 2013
- October 2013
- April 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
Categories
- Africa
- Age discrimination
- Agriculture
- aid
- Asia
- Australia
- Balance of Payments
- Balance of Trade
- Bank of England
- Banking
- China
- Company Insolvencies
- Competition Commission
- Consumer Expenditure
- Consumer Price Index
- Corporate losses
- crowding out
- Deflation
- Demographics
- Development
- Earnings
- economic growth
- Elasticity
- Employment
- Energy
- Energy supply and security
- Environment
- European Union
- eurozone
- Exchange Rates
- Externalities
- Ezine
- Family spending
- Fiscal stimulus
- Food price inflation
- Foreign Direct Investment
- G20
- GDP
- GDP per head
- Gender equality
- Gender pay gap
- Global Warming
- government borrowing
- government spending
- Greenhouse Gases
- Gross National Income
- Household income
- Household wealth
- Housing
- Human Development Index
- Immigration
- industrial production
- Inequality
- Inflation
- Infrastructure
- Interest rates
- International
- International Labour Organisation
- International Monetary Fund
- International Trade
- Internet
- Investment
- Ireland
- Japan
- Keynesian
- labour markets
- Least Developed Coutries
- Lending
- Low-income countries
- macroeconomic policy
- Manufacturing
- market failure
- mergers and takeovers
- Microeconomics
- migration
- Minimum pricing
- Minimum Wage
- Monetary Policy Committee
- Monetary Union
- Money Supply
- Multiplier Effect
- nationalisation
- News
- Obesity
- OECD
- Office for Budget Responsibility
- Office of Fair Trading
- Oil
- OPEC
- Population
- Pricing
- production
- productivity
- Protectionism
- Public Finances
- Quantitative Easing
- Quotas
- recession
- Renewable energy
- Retailing
- savings
- Service Sector
- Site Information
- Small Business
- sterling
- Strikes
- swine flu
- Tariffs
- taxation
- Transport
- Travel and Tourism
- UK economy
- UK industry
- Uncategorized
- UNCTAD
- unemployment
- US economy
- Workless households
- World Bank
- World Trade
- World Trade Organisation
Tags
average earnings Balance of Trade Bank of England China CPI Deflation developing countries Earnings economic growth Employment EU eurozone exports GDP gdp growth government borrowing government spending growth house prices imports Inflation Interest rates International Trade Investment Manufacturing MPC OECD private sector production Public Finances public sector public sector net borrowing quantitative easing recession RPI RPIX services sterling taxation unemployment unemployment rate US VAT World Trade youth unemployment
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Recovery in OECD trade
The volume of merchandise trade of the G7 group of countries grew in the third quarter of 2009, after being largely stable in the previous quarter. In fact, exports from G7 countries grew by 5.0% quarter-on-quarter and imports rose by 4.1% in the third quarter. However, when we look at year-on-year figures, exports were down 17.5% and imports also fell … Continue reading
Recession has ended, but only just.
Surprising figures just released by the ONS show that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared with a decrease of 0.2% in the third quarter. This was put down to growth in both services and production. However, this figure was quite surprising as most commentators were expecting a larger rise, even up … Continue reading
Falling sterling: Advantages and disadvantages
Over the last three years the euro has gone up in value by 30% against sterling, whilst the dollar has risen by 20%. This fall in the value of the pound has been picked up in three articles which I have been reading over the weekend. The first, published in the Telegraph online this morning, supplies some good news. … Continue reading
China back to double-digit growth
The Chinese economy grew by 10.7% year-on-year in the final quarter of 2009. This was the fastest growth for two years and meant that there was a growth in output for 2009 as a whole of 8.7%. The official growth target had been 8.0%. Gross Domestic Product totalled £3,020 billion in 2009 which put China’s output just below the … Continue reading
Record figure for UK December borrowing
Public sector borrowing in December last year reached £15.7bn, which was £1.9bn higher than the December 2008 figure, according to the Office for National Statistics today. This was the highest December figure on record. This means that the government’s net borrowing has reached £120bn for the first nine months of the fiscal year and seems to be on track … Continue reading
Unemployment and Employment Both Fall
The number of people unemployed between September and November 2009 fell by 7,000 to reach 2.46 million, according to the ONS this morning. Many economists had been expecting a rise in unemployment to about 2.50 million. This is the first quarterly fall in unemployment since the three months to May 2008, and gives an unemployment rate of 7.8%. However, … Continue reading
Largest ever increase in UK inflation
CPI annual inflation which is targeted by the government, rose to 2.9% in December 2009 from 1.9% in November. This increase of 1.0% was the largest ever increase in the annual rate between two months. Why was the increase so large, especially considering that the consensus amongst City economists was for a rise to 2.6%? The basic reason is … Continue reading
To Hull and back
The recent recession has increased the gap between city economies in the UK, according to the Centre for Cities annual index. When looking at the increases in the Job Seekers Allowance claimant count rate in November 2009, compared to February 2008, Hull fares the worst. In fact the claimant count rose from 4.8% to 8.4% over this period. At the … Continue reading
Spending on clothes has gone down, so why do we need bigger wardrobes?
UK households spent less on average per week on shoes and clothing in 2008 than at any time since 2001-02, according to ‘Family Spending’, the annual report on household expenditure from the Office for National Statistics. Spending on clothing and footwear fell to an average of £21.60 per week from a high of £23.90 in 2004-05. Why did we … Continue reading
Fall in consumer confidence
Consumer confidence fell in the last quarter of 2009 with nearly a third of consumers expecting the economy to get worse this year, according to research published today by the Association of British Insurers. Of 2,500 adults questioned, 31% expected the economy to worsen in 2010 with only 39% being optimistic – a sharp fall from the 52% recorded … Continue reading
