All posts from: August 2020

UK unemployment is over 2 million and rising

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures today which show that the 3-month unemployment rate remained near record lows at 3.9% in June.

Furthermore, the single-month rate fell from 4.1% in May to 3.8% in June, which appears at odds with announced job losses ac…

The future of economics

future of economics

A rare dip into economic philosophy recently turned up a timely piece on the issues that macroeconomics is facing. It prompted our Head of Modelling, Hector Pollitt, to question the future of economics.

Robert Delorme lays out a ‘problem first’ approach to economic analysi…