Economic thinking is widely used now across most areas of government activity, though there is not much research on what professional economists do. This paper, therefore, develops and reports on a survey of over 500 members of the UK Government Economic Service, which we use to shed light on...
What is the best to get out of bad debt and generate some creative way to make more money to pay off that debt? How is it that America can have so much debt yet still be so wealthy? If we don't have to pay back the national debt, then ...
"It's very much a torn decision: Do we get rid of them completely and never have the chance? "Or do we make it difficult for ourselves financially and have another baby, but we would be living pay cheque to pay cheque and worrying?" It's the type of choice faced by thousands of w...
Economists and financiers are not so much interested in how much a country owes, but whether a country is able to pay off its debts. A country that has a large annual income has a greater capacity of paying off a particular sum of money than a country that doesn’t earn much money eac...
She says consumers' ire should be directed at "profiteering energy giants" like Centrica and Norwegian-owned Equinor, the biggest supplier of gas to the UK, which "make billions of pounds each year out of our misery". "It is therefore crucial that the governm...
Hi I would like to talk to someone about my mortgage options, I am fixed until April next year so I may be abit early to be worrying about rates going up then however I do not know much about mortgages. Reply Damien May 17, 2023 at 11:30 am Hi, The best thing to do is to ...
What Is GDP: The GDP metric stands for the Gross Domestic Product and is often the most scrutinized national economic metric by economists around the world. The GDP reflects the value of all goods and services produced in a country regardless of where they are sold. ...
While much has been learned from this work, with few exceptions it has not addressed a fundamental question: why is it important that one institution carry out both functions under the same roof?” (Kashyap et al., 2002, p. 33f). They also argue that it is of utmost importance to ...
Brexit being no less than a wholesale realignment of the UK’s relationship with the world economy on every front. Brexit changed emigration, immigration, capital markets, labour markets, demographics, and pretty much every other factor. It was oversold on its simplicity and undersold on the ...
"It's very much a torn decision: Do we get rid of them completely and never have the chance? "Or do we make it difficult for ourselves financially and have another baby, but we would be living pay cheque to pay cheque and worrying?" ...