Your Neighbourhood Economist

A tumble in stock prices gives rise to more worries about China but it is not deserving of the bad press News about China often hits t...

Low inflation is dampening the effects of low interest rates and central banks are happy to let this happen As guardians of the econom...

Interest rates may not be low enough to get us on the road to recovery but falling prices should help Something strange is afoot in th...

House prices are distorted by demand from investors and governments are making the situation worse Houses have become so much more tha...

US monetary policy has missed its mark and it is a handful of emerging markets that look set to pay the price The big guns of monetary...

The European Central Bank has been late to try quantitative easing and may find that additional euros cannot buy much relief We all ha...

Many expect the Chinese economy to misbehave but it is more likely that China will grow out itself out of trouble China is growing up ...