Author Archives: Tony Yates

A post from me on this topic that appeared on Ben Chu’s ‘Chunomics’ blog at the Independent. Advertisements

A rather forced pun to begin this waiting-room queue blog. But post hoc ergo propter hoc refers to the fallacy of concluding that since after all A we observed B, A must have caused B. This is a summary of … Continue reading →

Andrew Sentance’s FT comment column this weekend needs a reply.   So much that it’s worth running the risk that this blog starts to be seen as the Andrew Sentance rebuttal unit. One thing Andrew says is: “By acting as instruments … Continue reading →

One of the tenets of market monetarism is that acivist fiscal policy is a waste of time, since monetary policy can do all the stabilisation that’s needed.  On Twitter last night Joe Wiesenthal at Bloomberg wondered what MaMos would think … Continue reading →

There’s lots to find encouraging about today’s One Bank Research Agenda Launch Party.  [Caveat:  my recovering kidney meant I could not sit for very long on the mis-shaped BoE conference centre chairs and had to bail out of most of … Continue reading →

This post is all speculation and stereotype, but I think worthwhile passing on as it’s the sort of thing often talked about on the academic conference circuit.  It recaps on a bunch of tweets sent Thursday 18. The starting point … Continue reading →

Following on from my last post, a part of the argument that the Eurogroup will try to strike a deal at all costs is that they are seeking to protect the sacrosanct nature of the euro, which involves preserving that … Continue reading →