Next week, Pete Comley is coming to speak to the ERC on “Inflationary Wave Theory”.
Chart of the Week: Week 18, 2015: EU Unemployment
Eurostat released the latest unemployment figures for the EU at the end of last week, and the headline rate remained at 9.8% for the whole of the first quarter of this year (down from 10.4% in March 2014).
Chart of the Week: Week 17, 2015: Historical UK Government Debt
Public sector finance data for the financial year 2014/15 was released at the end of last week, so we’ve updated our annual chart tracking historical UK government debt over the last 160 years.
Chart of the Week: Week 16, 2015: Duration of Unemployment
The UK labour market statistics released at the end of last week reported continued improvement.
Chart of the Week: Week 15, 2015: IMF Growth Forecasts
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) release their twice yearly World Economic Outlook report in April, and it contains a great deal of data and forecasts.
Chart of the Week: Week 13, 2015: The Eurozone Recovery
There has been a lot of new data released this week on the Euro Area, and all of it has been positive; unemployment continues to fall (slowly), inflation is back up to closer to 0%, and economic confidence is at its highest since 2011.