When US Interest Rates Rise - A Short Primer
The United States Federal Reserve is the Central Bank for the USA and seems poised to start raising monetary policy interest rates gradually later on this autumn or early in 2016. This would be the...
Apple & Microsoft: Collaboration not Competition
An excellent piece here from BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on the changing relationship between Apple and Microsoft.
Economic Principles of the Refugee Crisis
Emotions are running high over the refugee crisis, with heart-breaking images arousing waves of compassion across Europe. As ever, however, economics lurks in the background. The tragic stories of...
Africa in Numbers
For students taking the EdExcel Unit 4 Global Economy course this data rich article from the Guardian comes highly recommended. They take seven indicators to help emphasise the structural...
EU lesson resources
Based on this week's Beyond the Bike adventures from the City of London and into Europe, here are three lesson ideas, complete with resources that are ready-to-use in classrooms.
Beyond the Bike - a journey to the heart of the EU from London
This week Stuart and Claire cycled through France and Belgium and into the Netherlands. This is Stuart's blog post exploring whether Britain should stay in or leave the EU. You can see the original...
Peston on the Rising UK Trade Deficit
His holiness, Robert Peston responds to the disappointing July trade figures that were released today: the trade deficit is rising, manufacturing output has stalled and the only thing that is...
UK Oil and Gas Sector Sheds Thousands of Jobs
Oil and Gas UK have reported that there's been a precipitous decline in employment in the UK oil industry - and this could have a had a negative multiplier effect, not least on the Scottish...
Unboxing marathons to boost demand
Last week, Disney hosted an 18 hour "unboxing marathon" of Star Wars toys on YouTube. Unboxing is a new approach to marketing which involves unwrapping, unboxing, assembling and then demonstrating...
Coffee Snobs who Refuse to Drink Instant!
An early example here of income elasticity of demand here as the Telegraph reports on the decline in the demand for instant coffee and a corresponding increase in the demand for ground coffee and...
Whitbread to pay the Living Wage
Whitbread has announced that it is opting to pay the living wage for their employees but that some of the extra cost will be passed onto consumers through higher prices for some of the products....
China's Impossible Trinity
This is a high level piece of A level economics especially relevant for Upper Sixth (A2) students.
Where does the UK's overseas aid go?
The debate over the scale and substance of the UK's humanitarian support for displaced refugees from the Syrian crisis has focused attention on how the UK spends their annual aid budget. The UK...
Can Apple Continue to Grow Like a Start-Up?
In this short video, Daniel Garrahan from the Financial Times looks back at how Apple.Inc has been transformed over the past 20 years. Can the rapid growth be maintained or will Apple be affected...
Economics and Politics - a classic combination
A little bit like Mel and Sue on Great British Bake Off, Economics and Politics really complement each other nicely.
How often does a banknote change hands?
I really like this super analysis from the Guardian's data bloggers, based on research from OnStride Financial, in which they use the Quantity Theory of Money to calculate the "velocity of...
Short Survey on Using Videos to Teach Economics
How can video help economists communicate with a wider audience? Should videos be 5 minutes - or shorter or longer? Should they include graphics or documentary footage? The truth is, no one knows....
Falling living standards for jobseekers
This article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34151666 looks at one of the more obvious costs of unemployment for the individual worker - the loss of income. by 2020, the Joseph Rowntree...
Chinese businesses winning contracts on the new Silk Road
The new Silk Road is a hugely important development in the context of China's growing economic and financial influence in the world economy.
Divestment - Tesco off loads South Korean stores for £4.2 billion
Tesco is in a hurry to reduce their debt pile and avoid a costly share rights issue to raise fresh finance. The giant UK retailer is going through turbulent times. Their market share in the UK...