Archive - Tony's newsletter: Long and variable

Economists' letter endorsing Labour's plan for the UK

We have a letter published in The Guardian here explaining why on economic grounds we endorse Labour’s plans at the 2024 General Election.

Jun 21, 2024 •

May 2023

Is Musk right that the Fed's data 'has too much latency'?

Does the Fed operate with data that has ‘too much latency’?

May 5, 2023 •

January 2023

Things that Marr Labour's Brexit ambitions

This post is a write-up of a thread I did on Twitter [evergreen introduction] about Andrew Marr’s recent New Statesman article when he chatted to…

Jan 30, 2023 •

We already have a 'social insurance model' for healthcare: it's called 'the NHS'!

The rapid deterioration in NHS emergency care in the UK has prompted the predictable comment that it is time for the UK to re-evaluate its overall…

Jan 13, 2023 •

The 'Elgin Marbles' are the Greeks': send them back

[And the other stuff too.]

Jan 8, 2023 •

Twitter is dead; long live 'Twitter'

Prospects for the network if Twitter were to die.

Jan 7, 2023 •

A private space for us to converse and connect

Jan 5, 2023 •

5% is not the magic number

Sunak's new inflation target

Jan 5, 2023 •

July 2022

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Jul 16, 2022 •

October 2021

Team transitory vs team permanent

Inflation has risen in the US, the UK, the Euro Area and elsewhere, as demand has increased following the opening up of the economy after…

Oct 15, 2021 •

February 2021

Should Mervyn recuse himself from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee enquiry on QE?

I just noticed that Mervyn King, former Bank of England Governor, has taken a place on the HoL Economic Affairs Committee, and is therefore due to take…

Feb 1, 2021 •

January 2021

New piece in Prospect on vaccine nationalism

You can find it here. Anyone teaching international trade, game theory, time consistency, should find this period full of great - if tragic - teaching…

Jan 31, 2021 •

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