Blog and updates
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24 Feb 2021
Apple's Acquisition Spree
A remarkable insight from Apple CEO Tim Cook revealing that Apple has bought a new company every month in the past six years.
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23 Feb 2021
Young hit hardest by Covid-19 job losses
Labour market data released by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) today shows that the under-25s accounted for more than half of those without jobs in the three months to December of last year.
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23 Feb 2021
Can we avoid an economic Long Covid?
The BBC's Faisal Islam reflects upon the pace at which lockdown is being eased and wonders about whether it might prolong the economic agony.
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22 Feb 2021
Development economics: UK private lenders urged to join relief effort for developing countries
As Boris Johnson takes charge of the G7 summit, campaigners are urging him to ensure UK private lenders (who own 30% of debt of countries under the G20 relief initiative) join international debt...
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21 Feb 2021
Gig Economy - Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers not self-employed (Updated)
Big news in the gig economy as the UK Supreme Court has decided that Uber drivers are not self-employed contractors but employees.
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19 Feb 2021
Supply side: UK to launch new 'high risk' science agency
This is a great example of an interventionist supply side policy from the UK government to try and encourage technological progress and strengthen the UK economy's productivity and supply side.
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19 Feb 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 19 Feb 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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18 Feb 2021
History suggests that Western economies are resilient to shocks
In his latest comment piece, Paul Ormerod argues that a striking feature of economic history is the resilience of the Western economies.
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17 Feb 2021
Globalisation - China overtakes the USA as EU's biggest trading partner
The centre of economic gravity is changing: the EU's largest trading partner is now China, and no longer the USA.
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17 Feb 2021
Enlightened self-interest needed in the push to vaccinate the world
Martin Wolf writes eloquently here in the Financial Times about the need for governments in advanced, high-income countries to drive co-operation to vaccinate the world.
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16 Feb 2021
Leveraged buy-outs - How to buy a £6.8bn supermarket for £780m
This BBC article dissects the leveraged buy out that has been used by the Issa Brothers to make an agreed bid to Walmart to buy Asda.
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16 Feb 2021
Jaguar cars to go fully electric by 2025
Jaguar Land Rover, the biggest manufacturer of cars in the UK, today announced that all of its Jaguar models will be fully electric by 2025.
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15 Feb 2021
Deliveroo gears up for a Spring 2021 Stockmarket floatation
Deliveroo - the food delivery business - is planning a floatation later this year in a listing that could value the business in excess of £7 billion.
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15 Feb 2021
WTO appoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as new Director General
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become the first female and first African to lead the World Trade Organisation.
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15 Feb 2021
Japanese economy contracts by 4.8% in 2020
It seems that all developed economies have taken a significant Covid-related hit - some, notably the UK, more than others.
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12 Feb 2021
Trade Frictions Post Brexit - Can the UK and EU find a solution to its problems?
This BBC Newsnight clip looks at the problems associated with the Northern Ireland protocol, and the extra costs that this is imposing on Northern Irish businesses.
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12 Feb 2021
Sustainable Growth - News Update
Here is a raft of topical stories in the news relating to the economics of sustainable growth.
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12 Feb 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 12 Feb 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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11 Feb 2021
The 'Revolving Door' between politics and business
The appointment of Christopher Woolard, the former head of the Financial Conduct Authority, to EY's partnership illustrates that the 'Revolving Door' is still very much in action.
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11 Feb 2021
Structural Economic Change - The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem
I love these Wendover Production clips - just lots of good economics, In this case, they look at the market for electric cars.
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