Next week, Pete Comley is coming to speak to the ERC on “Inflationary Wave Theory”.
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.
Chart of the Week: Week 12, 2015: UK Essentials Inflation
For the first time since they started recording the CPI measure of inflation, the rate of price growth has fallen to 0% (for February).
Chart of the Week: Week 7, 2015: Earnings vs. Prices
This week we’ve received two big bits of economic news: CPI inflation fell to just 0.3% in January, while earnings growth remained roughly steady at 1.7% in the three months to December.
Chart of the Week: Week 2, 2015: UK Inflation
It was announced yesterday that overall inflation in the UK in December last year fell to just 0.5% – the joint lowest level on record (the other time it was this low was in May 2000).
Chart of the Week: Week 51, 2014: Clash of the Titans
Our annual Clash of the Titans economic forecasting competition is taking place tomorrow night (the 18th December), so we’ve taken a look back at last year’s predictions and how they compared to what actually happened.