Spot of Economics

 THE USA has just announced over $1 billion of government funding for tree planting schemes across the country. The money is part of Joe Bid...

 SCOTLAND since 2018 has a price floor law for alcohol, which stipulates a minimum price a unit of alcohol can be sold for. Now, some econom...

 WAS "only" £11.6 billion, which was in fact lower than expected. As you may know, when the government's spending is more than...

 MORE controversy over HS2 - the high speed rail link being built from London to Manchester. It is projected to cost at least £50billion, ab...

IN the USA, regulators have sued Amazon, alleging that the internet giant is illegally maintaining monopoly power. The Federal Trade Commiss...

THE link below will take you to an interesting exchange of letters on the topic of UK inheritance tax - a tax that households pay on the val...

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 ONLY half the required number of trainee secondary school teachers have been recruited for UK teacher training courses starting this academ...

 WE all know that in the past the governments of many countries have produced hard hitting and even shocking advertisements on topics like c...

 During Covid, unemployment in the USA reached nearly 15%. Now it is less than 4%. Wages have been rising too. Inflation was high, but is no...

 A good topic here for possible PPE students to look at. This short article  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/17/populist-...

 INTERESTING article here:  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/17/rishi-sunak-tories-image-under-40s-younger-people-britain-net-z...

FOR years, many environmenal economists (including me!) have argued that the best policy to reduce fossil fuel emissions is a carbon tax. Th...

FOR the first time in many decades, China's macroeconomic performance is struggling. It has had a very hard time time recovering post-Co...

ALL countries see wind power as a crucial way to reduce CO2 emissions and the UK has been one of the pioneers in this kind of energy. Howeve...

 DID you know that the lifespan of the average smart phone is only just over two years? Did you also know that the pay and working condition...

 THIS article below is about a worry that economists in Ireland have, which we can dream about in the UK! They are worried about the economy...

 (1) There is to be an investigation over UK food prices , to check if supermarkets have been taking advantage of the recent rise in food pr...

 LOTS of important UK macro data in the last week or so. (1) The Base Rate of Interest was put up from 4.25% to 4.5%. https://www.bbc.co.uk/...

SOME of the announcements in today's Budget have already been revealed in advance. One was that there will be £20 billion of extra fundi...