Tuesday, 23 February 2010

The Single European Currency

Very good presentation from tutor2u...

Sterling and the UK Economy

What does depreciation of sterling mean for the UK economy?

Monday, 22 February 2010

LSE Summer School

The London School of Economics are now accepting applications for their prestigious summer school programme.

The BIG debate on when to cut!

The big policy debate amongst economists at the moment is all about when the government should make their inevitable spending cuts. Too late and Britain might become another Greece, too soon and we risk choking the recovery.

UK Unemployment Falls

UK LFS unemployment has fallen for the second month in a row but the claimant count has seen a slight rise. This BBC article is worth a look and I'd advise AH students to read Stephanie Flander's analysis in her Stephanomics blog.

Friday, 12 February 2010

The PIIGS of Europe

The eurozone economy is in the spotlight this week, with poor performance in peripheral countries raising questions over the future of this monetary union.

Monday, 8 February 2010

Explaining the national debt (3 min video)

Where does the government borrow all these billions of pounds from?
3 minute film from the BBC: watch film...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

To fix or float

Economics of exchange rate systems. Powerpoint from Tutor2U
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