Blog and updates
-
12 Dec 2021
Renewable Energy - Why Wind Turbines Blades Are So Hard to Recycle
This Business Insider clip highlights the fact that there's an odd state of affairs in the renewable energy market.
-
9 Dec 2021
Circular Economy - the companies making stuff from CO2
This article highlights how some innovative firms are generating value from carbon, including vodka, diamonds and active leisurewear.
-
9 Dec 2021
Globalisation - Lego to build $1bn factory in Vietnam
Lego has decided to invest in Vietnam on the back of double digit economic growth in the region in the past two years.
-
8 Dec 2021
Festive Lesson Quiz Pack 2021 - GCSE Economics
Here is a subject-specific PowerPoint-based quiz to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive theme!
-
8 Dec 2021
Investment and Economic Growth - Super-deduction drives surge in UK business investment
Here is an excellent read for Year 12 macroeconomics students. UK business investment is expected to rebound strongly in 2022.
-
8 Dec 2021
Price Mechanism - World Coffee Prices Hit 10-Year High
A late year surge in demand allied to worsening supply problems have come together to drive coffee prices to a decade-long high.
-
7 Dec 2021
Chinese Economy - Evergrande teeters
The Chinese government has stepped in to announce increases in business lending and to build more affordable property.
-
7 Dec 2021
African Continental Free Trade Area - Africa's patchy transport network gets a tech boost
This BBC article looks at the prospects for a more co-ordinated transport infrastructure across Africa.
-
7 Dec 2021
Circular economy - the companies making stuff from CO2
The circular economy is an increasingly prominent part of the wider economy and this article highlights how some innovative firms are generating value from carbon, including vodka, diamonds and...
-
6 Dec 2021
Christmas Lesson Quiz Pack 2021 - A-Level Economics (Year 13)
Here are two subject-specific PowerPoint-based quizzes to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive...
-
6 Dec 2021
Christmas Lesson Quiz Pack 2021 - A-Level Economics (Year 12)
Here are two subject-specific PowerPoint-based quizzes to use in the last few days of a challenging term! Each quiz uses a set of our ever-popular livestream activities all packaged up in a festive...
-
6 Dec 2021
Fiscal Policy - Should Inheritance Tax be Reformed?
This FT clip looks at the possibility of governments introducing increased inheritance taxes - a contentious issue.
-
6 Dec 2021
Environmental Economics - Shell pulls out of Cambo oil field development
Lots of economics here - it could be either micro- or macroeconomic - environmental economics or regional economics - in that any investment in the Cambo field might have a multiplied effect on the...
-
3 Dec 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 03 December 2021
Here's this week's economics news quiz! The CMA has ordered Facebook to sell off which subsidiary? Which cartel has agreed to increase supply of oil? Legislation is about to be introduced which...
-
2 Dec 2021
Government Failure - green homes scheme branded as a ‘slam dunk fail’
This is a savage indictment of inefficient policymaking, The Green Homes Scheme was intended to be a flagship scheme to foster environmentally-friendly home improvement.
-
28 Nov 2021
Water industry - Profits surge even as leaks and spills wash away public trust
The financial results of water company, Pennon are announced next week, and the Observer uses this to make a case for re-nationalisation of the sector, arguing that the structure of the industry is...
-
26 Nov 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 26 November 2021
Here's this week's economics news quiz! Which country is set to ban cryptocurrencies? Which bank is cutting the hours worked by employees without cutting their pay? What is the name of the UK's 7th...
-
26 Nov 2021
Rapid organic growth - Lidl to open another 220 stores by 2025
Lidl expects to open another 220 stores by 2025, creating 4,000 jobs and threatening the market share of established incumbents.
-
26 Nov 2021
Monetary Policy - Different Approaches to Tackling Inflation
It's been an interesting week for monetary policy across the world.
-
26 Nov 2021
How China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry
Not only is China the world's largest electric car market, but it's increasingly dominating the supply chain for the vehicles.
Get email updates
Subscribe to our email updates and we’ll let you know whenever new content we think you’ll find useful is added.