Broad Oak Magazine

I attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in Birmingham in 1977, and even then economists were asking whe...

D r Mark Perry reckons it's all been on the up-and-up since 1929. Yes, production has become more efficient over time. But can it be qu...

Birinyi Associates give their forecast for GDP growth in 2009:

US nonfinancial debt ( second quarter 2008 ) is $32.4 trillion dollars. This pie chart gives a breakdown of the debt by type. US GDP in 2006...

In the edited-out part of my recent letter to the Spectator, I pointed out that since 1963, average RPI has been c. 6.5% and the long-term r...

In the UK, GDP is said to trend long-term to an increase of around 2.5% per year, hence also the Monetary Policy Committee's figure for ...

We are said to be heading for a recession, so I had another look at Bank of England statistics for M4 - money supply as measured by private ...