Hat Tip Stephanie Flanders, this is from the Bank of England. SF herself doffs her hat to Melissa of Lombard Street, who is another of those economists I read in order to appear more informed than I really am. The Bank has a whole paper on why our terms of trade – what we sell [...]
Posts Tagged ‘exports’
18 Jan
The Economist and Martin Wolf go head to head . . .
Will China end up going the same way as Japan?
10 Nov
The trade figures
The trade figures add weight to the evidence stacked against George Osborne’s recipe for growth.
30 Oct
It’s out: Slash and Grow? or Can Osborne’s route to growth work?
Centreforum has produced a new report taking a slide-rule over the economic assumptions of the Conservatives: can Britain really grow through a fierce assault on the fiscal deficit? Have investments and exports ever done this before? What are the consequences of failure here? Answer: extremely serious
26 Oct
How seriously to take the ONS figures?
The GDP figures are occasion for some overreaction: but don’t expect exports to drag us out of this one any time soon – if you look at academic papers on this.
24 Oct
For Tim, and others
By my reckoning, the net export gap WILL improve if we crunch the UK’s consumption (i.e tax and cut benefits till everyone below the 9th percentile feels like s__T). But it won’t be enough, and the early indications are that net exports are not responding ENOUGH.
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