Stop Inflating the Inflation Threat

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-inflation-flat-phillips-curve-by-j-bradford-delong-2019-10

Why Is the Fed Still Raising Interest Rates?

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/three-reasons-for-fed-interest-rate-increases-by-martin-feldstein-2018-12

US slaps tariffs on $200bn of China goods as trade war escalates

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/slaps-tariffs-200bn-china-goods-trade-war-escalates-180918000824791.html

Bank of England raises UK interest rates

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45043776

Lowest Unemployment in Europe?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/heres-why-the-czech-republic-has-the-lowest-unemployment-in-the-eu/

Eurozone unemployment rate falls to 10.3%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35694107

Most Miserable Countries in the World

http://uk.businessinsider.com/most-miserable-countries-in-the-world-2015-9?r=US&IR=T

UK unemployment falls to 1.9 million

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30913960

UK Macroeconomic Recovery: Intangible but Unexpectedly Fast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25414444 - Intangible Growth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25461227 - Faster than Forecast Growth

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/unemployment-falls-99-000-four-low-093905655.html#8n7dTFe - Unemployment Falls to 4-Year Low

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25413641 - Inflation Falls to 2.1%

The Chinese Balancing Act

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22489446

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22508472

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22506786

ECB Cuts Interest Rates To Aid Euro Recovery

http://news.sky.com/story/1086032/ecb-cuts-interest-rates-to-aid-euro-recovery

Eurozone Unemployment & Inflation: Policy Implications?

Inflation Hits 3 Year Low: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/breaking-news/eurozone-inflation-falls-to-3-year-low/story-e6freuyr-1226632645363

Unemployment at Record High: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22353726

Labour Market Reforms in Germany

http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-4-macro-unemployment-in-germany-the-hartz-reforms

Germany’s labour market: Wunderreform

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21573583-ten-years-how-does-germanys-agenda-2010-package-rate-wunderreform

US economy added 236,000 jobs in February

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21715184

Europe Continues To Drink The ECB's Poisoned Kool-Aid

http://www.project-syndicate.org/blog/europe-continues-to-drink-the-ecb-s-poisoned-kool-aid-by-christopher-t--mahoney

UK Unemployment falls to 7.8%

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20691842

Clash of the Titans

The Economics Research Council hafve an event where they invite three professors from the top three university Economics Department in the Country (Cambridge, Oxford, LSE) to give their predictions for the coming year and the results are published on this website. It is interesting to see how the different departments predictions are, showing that economic data / forecast is extremely difficult to make. The link is also on the Useful Links box. http://www.ercouncil.org/clash-of-the-titans/

So Much New Data / News on Economic Performance

Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/economy/ GDP UK Out of Recession: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20080884 US Sharp Growth: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20096380 S.Korean Slower Growth: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20091507 Unemployment Increasing in Spain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20094791

UK Productivity Puzzle

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19981498