In recent months, the US Housing Market has seen record house prices, mortgage rates quadrupling from 2 to 8%, and price to income multiples worse than 2006. It is a familiar story across the world. But, so far US house prices have seemed to defy gravity. Yet how long can they remain so elevated? Is …
Is the UK Heading for a Pre-Election RECESSION?Watch this video on YouTube Last year, the Bank of England made a very gloomy prediction for the UK economy – a deep and prolonged recession. They were wrong, the UK avoided recession and grew more strongly than some expected, but the downside is that the Bank of …
Definition: The money supply measures the total amount of money in the economy at a particular time. It includes actual notes and coins and also any deposits which can be quickly converted into cash. There are different measures of the money supply. Narrow Money e.g. M0 = This is the level of notes and coins …
If you are interested in fiscal impact of net migration, this study “Fiscal effects of immigration to the UK” is worth reading. The Economic Journal,Doi: 10.1111/ecoj.1218 Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini Some highlights EU migrants cost the UK government £408.12 per second in public expenditures, and contribute £463.35 per second in revenue. Of all EU …
Readers Question on Debt and GDP Readers Question: OK so the debt to GDP looks manageable when it is compared to the figure during the world wars but : Q1. how do you calculate GDP rationally in wartime , did factories sell tanks to the army, were soldiers and workers paid commensurately for their labour ? GDP …
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I have quite a few readers in India, so I’d like to have a brief look at the Indian economy and it’s prospects for the coming year. After spending so much time looking at the (rather depressing) economics of austerity in Europe and UK, it makes a welcome change to look at a developing economy …
After faltering for several years, the UK economy shows signs of real recovery, with rising spending, investment, exports and even manufacturing growth. At the start of 2014, there seems to be a virtuous circle of falling unemployment, falling inflation, and rising GDP. After one of the longest and deepest recessions on record, these signs of …