It is amazing really how long the Government and the media take to cotton on to real world events.  As readers here will know, as soon as t...

 to come you say? YES. You see what we have today is just the foothills unfortunately, baked into the pipeline are some rather big nasties. ...

It is budget week in the UK and Rishi Sunak can hardly be described as a hardman or dictator. But the challenges facing the UK now are very ...

All the comment in the media around the world today is of the coming stagflationary scenario and a return to the 1970's.  Even at a high...

 Today is the start of the Tory party conference. Whilst ahead in the polls against the mad left of the Labor party, they reality is this fe...

 I am back, after sometime away in a country that makes the UK feel very cheap indeed.  Watching the Afghan disaster from afar, as we all di...

So unemployment has fallen in the UK, very unexpectedly in the last quarter. Down only from 4.9% to 4.8%, but to fall during a lockdown is r...

When I was younger I use to always read AEP, I felt he was the most serious economic journalist in the UK, taking a global view of macro eco...

Thanks to Brexit, the madness of Corbynism, climate change and the emergence of 'woke' identity politics, I can't remember a tim...

Quite a surprise today that the ONS has the UK economy shrinking by 0.2% in the second quarter. Just a couple of days ago the services PMI...

the modern world is so interlinked via financial globalisation. The economies of the world, whilst they have their own rhythm to some extent...

As long time readers of this blog will know, August is always troubling in the markets. Everyone is away but events go onward in the...

Not a great end to the week in yet another of the long-drawn out retail sector decimation. Debenhams has don't he usual trick of blami...

Of course they did, quite recently, back to heady heights of still below 1%. But the Bank of England, giving its favourite 'guidance...

Compare and contrast the charts below, on the one hand there is a nice rise in US Bond yields (which is making markets jittery - of cours...

If you want to read good news stories, check this out in the Financial Times . Even by the standards of the #despitebrexit media this is a...

Interesting comments yesterday sparked by BE, so more on the topic for today is in order. Economics is hard and open to interpretation. H...

After two weeks of travelling in the Middle East (well the non-warring bits, so a very small area sadly), I come back for once to find n...

Is this the first sign of Mr P.'s rather desperate gamble coming off the rails? Russia is to re-focus investment away from Oil and Ga...

Baltic Dry Rates - Asia to Europe: FTSE 100: Brent Oil Price:   At least I can think of a few good things: - No interest rate ...