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18 Feb 2016
Student Essay: Evaluating Fiscal Austerity in the UK
Here is a really good example of a student essay that uses strong contextual evidence to build arguments on both sides of the fiscal austerity debate. First Year student Juhwan Sohn answered this...
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18 Feb 2016
BoE Competition - St Olave's Survey of Regional Economic Confidence
The economics team at St Olave's Grammar School Orpington are working hard on their presentation for the next round of the Target 2.0 Competition organised by the Bank of England. As part of their...
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16 Feb 2016
Building Contextual Awareness - Country Profile Sheets
I have updated the country profile sheets used by my students as preparation for their A2 macro exams this summer. The resource is available as a free download.
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14 Feb 2016
Growth Miracles and Growth Disasters
Some might take issue with continuing to award Japan the accolade of a growth miracle economy, nonetheless this entertaining short video from Marginal Revolution is a a tidy bridging resource on...
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14 Feb 2016
Falling copper prices hit Zambian towns
This clip from BBC news looks at the impact of the Chinese slowdown on the global copper price and, by default, the economic fortunes of Zambia's Copperbelt. The town of Kitwe, the capital of the...
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14 Feb 2016
UK Housing - A Nation of Permanent Renters?
Such is the affordability crisis in owner-occupied housing in Britain that there is a significant risk that millions of people will never be able to buy their own property. A new report from the...
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12 Feb 2016
Baltic Dry Index Suggests Stormy Times for Global Economy
The cost of hiring a freight-liner to carry products around the world has collapsed in recent months. If the Baltic Dry Index is any guide for the global economy, the picture is looking decidedly...
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12 Feb 2016
EU launches anti-dumping probe on Chinese steel
The pressure for official investigations into allegations that China is dumping steel into the European Union has been mounting for many months. Now the EU has decided to extend their probe into...
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12 Feb 2016
GSK hit by fine for anti-competitive behaviour
Quelle surprise - on being fined for anti-competitive behaviour, GSK deny the allegations and argue that they brought the drugs of their generic rivals to the market earlier, saving the NHS money....
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12 Feb 2016
St Mary Magdalene Academy Economics Question Time (2016)
We are delighted to add details of the 2016 St Mary Magdalene Academy Economics Question Time event to be held in London on 9th March. Tickets are free and a warm welcome is extended to economics...
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11 Feb 2016
The England football team suit and globalisation
The story of the creation of the England football team's suit for Euro 2016 is a great example to use in analysing globalistion, with elements created all over the world - look at the map below,...
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11 Feb 2016
Behavioural economics on Valentine’s Day
A joke blog today. Slightly better than the dreadful economics valentine’s jokes here.
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11 Feb 2016
Information failure, consumer behaviour and prices
Here's a good spot from regular t2u contributor Penny Brooks, who is highlighting to her students this week an article from the BBC on how businesses can confuse consumers with their price offers....
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11 Feb 2016
Finland suffers a slump in economic growth
Finland used to be one of the European Union's most prosperous countries. That was during the heyday of former mobile phone giant Nokia, before the global economic crisis. Now economic growth is...
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11 Feb 2016
BREXIT and the UK economy - The Beast Tool
What is the likely impact of a Brexit on the UK economy? Bloomberg Intelligence's Jamie Murray reports on possible outcomes to the U.K. economy if there is a Brexit
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11 Feb 2016
Collapsing commodity prices hit South African miners
The dramatic fall in commodity prices is hitting employment in the South African economy.
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10 Feb 2016
Dambisa Moyo on fixing economic growth
Here's a very recent TED talk from Dambisa Moyo on fixing stalling economic growth. She argues that capitalism isn't creating the growth we need, and in both state-sponsored and market-driven...
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10 Feb 2016
What have Trade Unions ever done for us?
For students born in the aftermath of Thatcherite reform which cast the unions as the industrial bogeyman, this TUC video goes some way towards redressing the balance. So what have the unions done...
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10 Feb 2016
Scale of UK food bank use continues to grow
New data from the Trussell Trust finds that the number of people given emergency food help has continued to grow with over 1 million people receiving assistance in 2014-15 compared to 128,000 in...
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10 Feb 2016
Apprenticeships lower German youth unemployment
Britain has always lagged behind our Continental rivals in providing vocational training and this clip from BBC news highlights the apprenticeship system operated by Siemens - its costs/benefits to...
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