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Prime Economics: Jeremy Smith – Inflation and pay – Doing the wrong Something
Whatever the Bank of England is doing in the hope of reducing inflation, it is the opposite of what it needed. Read here
Jeremy Smith
Economics
Jeremy Smith – Commercial property: * Prêt a Payer *, or Prêt-à-Fermer?
This applies to much of Europe, which has been the target of property speculation for decades. Jeremy Smith is co-director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), and barrister. He is a co-editor of Rethinking Britain Cross-posted […]
Economics
Jeremy Smith – Corona Crisis: Our ‘scenario’ for UK GDP in 2020 (a 14% annual fall)
No one seems to be really capable of grasping the economic effects of the current crisis. And even after this devastating result, Jeremy Smith goes on to write: “It is however still a long way […]
Economics
Jeremy Smith – A Farewell to ‘Fiscal Rules’?
We may well be seeing the end of “fiscal responsibility”, which means austerity. Governments are increasingly under pressure to adopt fiscal measures to deal with the mounting financial and economic pressures we are currently experiencing. […]
Economics
Jeremy Smith – Rethinking Britain: the Fundamental Choice the Nation Faces in the Upcoming General Election
Probably nowhere in Europe is there so much energy and thought being invested in the search for a way out of the dead end that neo-liberalism has led us into. “Rethinking Britain – Policy Ideas […]
Economics
John Weeks and Jeremy Smith – Economic Guidelines for a Better European Union
The existing European Treaty is dangerously disfunctional. Better guidelines would enhance rather than constrain economic policy. Here are some, including making the European Central Bank the reserve buyer of national public bonds John Weeks is […]
Austerity
Jeremy Smith – UK economy 2010-2018 – the devastating impact of the age of austerity
Britain – as absurd as it seems – is still in the clutch of austerity. One does not need to be an expert to recognise what this has done, and is still doing, to the […]
Austerity
Jeremy Smith and John Weeks – EU’s dysfunctional fiscal rules empower the far right, both in Italy and elsewhere
Prime Economics Co-Director Jeremy Smith and PEF Council member John Weeks analyse the “bar room budget-brawl” between the Italian government and the European Commission, and argue that the Commission’s wrong-footed response threatens to strengthen the […]
Deregulation
Jeremy Smith – The slowing economy of the Single Market and NAFTA era
This may not be the simplest of reads, but the analyses is fascinating regarding international trade agreements: “In assessing the impact of the Single Market and NAFTA on the 10 countries looked at, we can […]
EU politics
Jeremy Smith – Early reflections on the English local elections
This is our second quick assessment of yesterdays election in England. The first (read here) is by John Weeks. By Jeremy Smith, co-director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) The English local elections – mainly in […]