Economist, Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Writer, Public Speaker.
One in 100-year events are supposed to be rare, but we have had two within the last ten years. The first was the global financial crisis in 2008 / 2009. The second is now the global pandemic. It means they are happening with more frequency, and as a result, we should be expecting another one …
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As Mark Carney prepares to make way for new governor Andrew Bailey, he’s voiced the suggestion that UK interest rates could be cut if the economy wobbles in early 2020. His view may be in anticipation, as some have concluded, of an economic shock resulting from the UK’s exit from the UK on 31st January. …
Last week’s MPC committee witnessed the widest vote split since 2011, with three out of the eight economists on the MPC voting to increase interest rates by a quarter of a per cent. Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney voted against a rise, a position he defended in his Mansion House speech on Tuesday. A …