Why Financial Markets Matter - Short Lesson Video
A bright and breezy animated introduction to the role and importance of financial markets here from the Bank of England! A useful scene-setter when teaching financial markets.
HBOS Report - Market Failure and Regulatory Capture
A report from the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority has suggested that up to 10 executives that worked for HBOS should be banned from working in the City in the future. The named...
Gender Equality - Higher or Lower Teaching Resource
The World Economic Forum have produced a report ranking countries around the world in terms of their gender equality status. The report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they...
The Cookie Monster and Behavioural Economics
Ahead of yesterday's tutor2u Teaching Behavioural Economics at A-Level CPD event in London, Jon Clark and I were discussing the benefits of using short film and TV clips to illustrate key...
Could Ernie replace Andy? The Bank’s take on automation
The Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has been in the news with his predictions that up to 15 million jobs in the UK are at risk of being lost to automation. This is a huge...
Non-price competition - the battle for fast recharging
Battery life and recharging times for portable devices are fast-becoming really significant as non-price factors driving the competitiveness of products. Huawei is a Chinese business that leads...
Structural Unemployment from Mitchell and Webb
I absolutely love this hilarious clip from Mitchell and Webb, which explores the impact of a change in the structure of the economy from the perspective of Stone Age man.
Aggregate demand low investment and corporate cash mountains
Investment as a % of GDP in the UK economy remains in the doldrums, but businesses are not short of cash and the government can borrow on the bond market at historically low interest rates...
The UK Productivity Issue
The British economy has suffered for many years from a persistent productivity gap. Output per person employed has remained well below the level of many of the UK's major competitor nations. Why is...
Hands of Redcar - structural unemployment
There is a super series on the BBC at the moment exploring the impact of the closure of the steelworks in Redcar. You can judge the mood on the ground with this interview with Karen and John who...
Easyjet, local multipliers and economic growth
This article today from the BBC explores the impact that the growth of low-cost airlines such as Easyjet can have on towns and cities that are Easyjet destinations.
Assessing the predicted impact of climate change
I like this map visualisation (below) from the Independent showing which countries are most at risk from climate change - the neat thing about this risk assessment is that it is based on two key...
President Obama's Behavioural Insights Executive Order
A few weeks ago, President Obama issued an unusual Executive Order (a presidential instruction that effectively bypasses the minefield of getting legislation through Congress). The Executive Order...
tutor2u Economics is Coming to Malaysia: 25-27 February 2016
We are delighted to be visiting our teaching colleagues in the Far East once again in 2016. The tutor2u Economics team is visiting Kuala Lumpur on 25-27 February 2016 to deliver two of our most...
tutor2u Economics is Coming to Dubai: 9-11 February 2016
We are delighted to be visiting our teaching colleagues in the UAE again in 2016. The tutor2u Economics team is visiting Dubai on 9-11 February 2016 to deliver two of our most popular Economics CPD...
The Oil Price and Exchange Rates
I’ve recently finished teaching exchange rates with my Y13 students and I came across this interesting article
in The Economist. It talks about the
relationship between the oil price and the...
The Future of China's Economy
This is an absolute gem! It is the recording of a live lecture on China given at the Oxford Martin School on Wednesday 11th November 2015. I thoroughly recommend that all A2 economics students...
In Conversation with Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and an honorary...
FDI and LRAS: Microsoft to open UK data centres
Data storage centres have a physical bricks and mortar aspect but also a weightless component too! The decision by Microsoft to invest in two new data centres will have effects on aggregate demand...
The Impact of Falling Oil and Steel Prices on the UK Economy
My first year macro students are analysing and evaluating some effects of the steep decline in oil and steel prices on key UK macroeconomic indicators. Here’s some background reading for their...