The economic dislocation following the financial crisis is receding and business in general seems to have adjusted to a world of growing uncertainty on the political as well as the legislative front. Perhaps…
Chart of the Week: Week 3, 2017: US Presidents’ Relative Economic Performance
In this inauguration week, the ERC is looking back at the last six US presidents and the state of US economics during their terms.
Chart of the Week: Week 50, 2016: US Trade in Goods with China
The chart demonstrates the extent to which the two countries’ economies are intertwined and the enormity of the US trade deficit with China, which has only increased in the last two decades.
October 2016
For the last twenty years, we have been living in a period during which a generation has forgotten that debt has to be paid down and debt destruction, often discussed and experienced in the last century, has been forgotten about. This …
September 2016
Like a drug, increasing QE is less and less effective. The actions of the Bank of England post-Brexit are for this reason extremely worrying and will cause many more problems down the road for banking…
July 2016
We can now say that June 23rd is a seminal moment in Great Britain’s history.
The outcome of the referendum was unexpected and extraordinary. The weight of th…