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"Competitive" electricity market is still flawed
(Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - Warwick University)
Research from Warwick University has found evidence that the UK retail electricity industry is still not delivering the benefits to consumers that might be expected from increased competition within t...
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$2 Pound is just an Inch Away!
(Monday, April 16, 2007 - )
Sterling is set to break the two dollar benchmark in the next few days as the value of the pound continues to rise on the foreign exchanges.
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£200,000 the average house price in the UK
(Sunday 27th November - )
The average price of a house in the UK is about to climb above two hundred thousand pounds! Today's blog looks at the evidence. Data charts to download in PowerPoint format.
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£21 billion spent on internet shopping
(Saturday, October 14, 2006 - Daily Telegraph)
Office for National Statistics saw UK online consumer purchases rise by 30% during 2005
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£25 congestion charge proposed for high polluting cars
(Sunday, July 16, 2006 - )
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone is proposing to lift the charge for drivers of petrol-guzzling cars to £25 - more than three times the current charge.
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100 Audio visual links for Economics
(Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - )
Over 100 links to news clips from BBC Business News sorted alphabetically – useful for reference when chasing up recent BBC news stories on a number of core economics topics - updated from yesterday t...
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12 topics to nail before the AS paper!
(Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - )
I have suggested twelve topics drawn from micro and macro that are useful to nail before the exam on Friday. This is not question-spotting, more the topics that I would make sure I had covered before ...
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2005 - a boom year for Europe's airports
(Saturday, January 20, 2007 - EuroStat)
The European aviation industry continues to boom. Eurostat reports that air passenger transport within an enlarged European union grew by 8.5% in 2005 with the total number of passengers transported b...
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2005 - Volatile year for commodities
(Saturday 17th December 2005 - )
2005 has been an amazing year for commodity prices. The blog today provides an overview of prices all contained within a PowerPoint presentation.
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2007 BBC Reith Lectures look at Development and Globalisation
(Sunday, April 29, 2007 - BBC)
The 2007 Reith Lectures are given by one of the world's foremost economists, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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30,000 jobs slashed at General Motors
(Monday 28th November - )
General Motors Corp is slashing over 30,000 jobs in a dramatic bid to reduce costs. We focus on their strategy in today's blog.
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50 links to BBC AV news stories
(Tuesday June 27, 2006 - )
Fifty links to news clips from BBC Business News sorted alphabetically – useful for reference when chasing up recent BBC news stories on a number of core economics topics.
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99% of nurses are priced out of the housing market
(Monday, April 16, 2007 - Halifax Bank of Scotland)
Halifax Bank of Scotland have released their latest figures on housing affordability and the problems that key public sector workers have in getting onto the property ladder.
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A billion bottles of wine go to waste
(Friday, June 23, 2006 - )
The European Union is looking for ways to reduce the wine lake from French wine producers. After decades of subsidising vine production, the EU is now acting to reduce the millions of litres of surplu...
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A bleak summer for UK tour operators
(Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - )
Terror threats, blazing heat and the World Cup have combined to make summer 2006 a dreadful period for tour operators
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A case of mistaken identity - one of the funniest ever business clips on TV
(Saturday, June 16, 2007 - BBC News / YouTube)
This is what happens when the BBC want to interview an expert about a legal case involving Apple computers. The only problem - they have the wrong man in the chair!
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A day of rising interest rates
(Friday, June 09, 2006 - )
Although the Bank of England kept UK interest rates on hold yesterday at 4.5%, yesterday proved to be a day when central banks around the world decided to tighten the screws of monetary policy!
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A decade of changing patterns in UK spending
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There has been astonishing growth in some markets over the last 10 years, whilst others have stagnated. Find out more here, with a link to a BBC article with the details.
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A fresh selection of economics audio-visual from the BBC
(Friday, March 02, 2007 - BBC news audio-visual)
A fresh selection of economics news stories available in audio-visual format from the BBC web site.
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A great line-up for Business Cafe Live!
(Monday, November 27, 2006 - )
Our five speakers at Business Cafe Live should make for a fantastic event for Business and Economics teachers
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A look at the components of aggregate demand (AS economics)
(Monday, October 16, 2006 - )
The revised figures for the components of aggregate demand for goods and services in the UK economy are now available.
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A new selection of BBC business news clips
(Saturday, June 17, 2006 - )
A fresh group of excellent BBC news clips streamed from their business and economics coverage. Typically each clip is around two minutes long and teachers can frequently use these clips to promote dis...
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A panic attack at the US Federal Reserve
(Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - )
A panic over-reaction or the right medicine to ward off the risk of a global big chill? The US Fed Reserve has cut interest rates by 0.75% - the biggest cut in US interest rates for a quarter of a cen...
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A pre-emptive cut in US interest rates
(Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - )
The United States Federal Reserve, the USA’s central bank, has announced a 0.5% cut in interest rates in a bid to provide supporting for a weakening economy hit by an emerging housing market recession...
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A Question of Incentives
(Monday, September 10, 2007 - )
Incentives matter in all sorts of ways and we have been discussing them in our introductory economics lessons over the past week.
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