Mainly Macro

Comment on macroeconomic issues

By Simon Wren-Lewis

Should Governments Protect Citizens From External Shocks To Living Standards?

November 26, 2024

A Budget That Points The Way But Doesn’t Get Us Very Far

October 31, 2024

October Budget 5. The UK’s Fiscal Rules: One Good And One Bad

October 1, 2024

October Budget 4 - Good and Bad Reasons To Have Fiscal Rules, and Why Bad Fiscal Rules Are Worse Than Having No Fiscal Rules

September 17, 2024

Why Is This Election A Disaster For The Conservatives?

June 18, 2024

The Macroeconomic Cost of Conservative Government

June 11, 2024

Inside a Macroeconomic Policy Blunder

May 28, 2024

High On Their Own Supply

April 30, 2024

The Bernanke Review of Bank of England Forecasting

April 23, 2024

Could Governments Finance Deficits By Creating Money?

April 16, 2024

On Maxing Out Credit Cards And Magic Money Trees

March 12, 2024

How 14 Years Have Shown The Impossibility Of Shrinking The UK State

March 7, 2024

Rishi Sunak Doesn’t Want To Talk About Islamophobia Because He Wants To Use It

March 5, 2024

Detoxifying Government Debt, Part 3. The Truss Crisis Has No Relevance For Labour Borrowing To Invest

February 27, 2024

Detoxifying Government Debt, Part 2. Market Myths

February 20, 2024

Detoxifying Government Debt, Part 1: Debt Is Also An Asset

February 13, 2024

One Rule To Bring Them All, And In The Darkness Bind Them

February 6, 2024

The Evolution Of The UK Conservative Party Since 1979

January 30, 2024

2024 Will Be The Year UK Fiscal Policy Became A Sad Joke

January 23, 2024

Why The Centre-Right Has Helped Cause The Drift To The Far Right In Western Democracies

January 16, 2024

If The Next Government Isn’t Diverting Resources To Investment Then It Will Be Giving Up On Our Future

January 9, 2024

The Case For Increasing Government Debt To Green The Economy Is Greater Than For Increasing Debt During The Pandemic

January 2, 2024

How A Labour Government Could Be The Tipping Point For Public Discussion About Immigration

December 19, 2023

Lessons (So Far) From The Inflation Bubble Of 2021-3

December 12, 2023

Unofficial Lockdowns, And Sunak’s Deadly Incompetence During The Pandemic

December 5, 2023

Fiscal Failures: The UK Autumn Statement And The German Debt Brake

November 28, 2023

Why Does The Political Right Have Such A Problem With Reality, And How Should Experts Respond?

November 21, 2023

Current UK And EU Stagnation Are In Part The Consequence Of Deficit Obsession

November 14, 2023

How Could Johnson Have Become Prime Minister?

November 7, 2023

Covid And The Unforgivable Mistakes That Cost Tens Of Thousands Of Lives In The UK

October 31, 2023

The Extreme Right & Austerity

October 24, 2023

What Does Being An Iron Chancellor Actually Mean?

October 17, 2023

Thirteen Years Of Creating Doubt & Uncertainty For UK Business

October 10, 2023

Braverman Is A Feature Not A Bug Of Conservative Electoral Strategy This Century

October 3, 2023

Challenges To The Strong Golden Rule: MMT & Bond Market Paranoia

September 26, 2023

Democracy On A Knife Edge In The United States

September 19, 2023

The Next Time Someone Says The Government Cannot Borrow To Invest, Just Mention RAAC

September 12, 2023

It’s The Economy, But Is It Good?

September 5, 2023

Attitudes Towards Redistribution

August 29, 2023

Wage Inflation, Unemployment & What You Wish To Believe

August 22, 2023

Economics & Neoliberalism

August 15, 2023

What The United States Might Tell Us About UK Inflation

August 8, 2023

The Farage-Coutts Affair Exemplifies The Bankruptcy Of UK Media And Politics

August 1, 2023

Labour Tax And Spend Is A Question Of When, Not If

July 25, 2023

Why Nationalisation Can Be A Gift To A Future Conservative Government

July 18, 2023

Inflation And Pandemic Recoveries In Five Major Economies

July 11, 2023

Why The Conservatives Will Always Advocate Economically Damaging Socially Conservative Policies

July 4, 2023

Wishful Thinking On UK Inflation

June 26, 2023

Sunak Is Right To Fear The Covid Public Inquiry, But The Right Wing Press Will Remain Unscathed By It

June 20, 2023

The Campaign Against Labour Borrowing To Invest

June 13, 2023

Rachel Reeves’ Economic Strategy

June 6, 2023

Why The Conservative Stance On Immigration Made A Hard Brexit Inevitable

May 30, 2023

New Fiscal Rules In The Eurozone, But Unwarranted Lack Of National Sovereignty Persists

May 23, 2023

Why Is There Asymmetry In How Insurgent Political Voices On The Left And Right Are Treated By The Two Main Parties In The UK?

May 16, 2023

The Tyranny of Nostalgia

May 9, 2023

Why Deteriorating Healthcare Is A Macroeconomic Issue

May 2, 2023

 Which OECD Country Is The Highest Social Spender?

April 25, 2023

Why Fiscal Consolidations (Spending Cuts Or Tax Increases) Don't Reduce Debt To GDP Ratios, And Why Politicians Continue To Tighten At The Wrong Time

April 18, 2023

The Poor Judgements Of Nigel Lawson

April 11, 2023

What France Can Teach The UK About Pensions

April 4, 2023

How Broadcasters’ Obsession With Westminster Politics Repeatedly Fails To Alert The Public About Major Policy Failures That Are Obvious To Experts

March 28, 2023

What Can Be Done About The Chancellor Gaming His Fiscal Rules

March 21, 2023

Will This Week's Budget Be Pre-Election Giveaways, Or Show Signs Of Strategic Thinking? 

March 14, 2023

How The Political Right Has Used ‘Impartiality’ To First Gain Political Power, And Then Take Over The BBC

March 11, 2023

Why Quantitative Easing Should Always Be With Us

March 7, 2023

The Political Economy And Worldwide Implications Of The Inflation Reduction Act In The US

February 28, 2023