David Blanchflower



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Full name: David Blanchflower

Area of interest: Business, economic and financial affairs

Journals/Organisation: The Independent | New Statesman

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Column name: Economic Outlook

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 * Let's call up Vince to get us out of this mess - Economic Outlook: The sack is a powerful weapon our dithering prime minister seems unable to wield - 30th July 2012
 * Has Treasury realised at last it's time to act? - Economic Outlook: The IMF report "explodes what is left of the credibility of the analysis behind fiscal strategy" - 23rd July 2012
 * Our fragile economy still has further to fall - It seems unlikely any announcement will have any effect on the economy much before 2015 - 16th July 2012
 * What took central banks so long to do more stimulus? - Why didn't they lower rates in February given there was no risk of inflation? - 9th July 2012
 * Yet more nails in Osborne's economic coffin - Economic Outlook: The Coalition bet the 2015 election on their economic policy working... all else was secondary - 2nd July 2012
 * Wages slide shows Bank must act strongly and quickly - The MPC should be easing policy right away given that the risks to inflation are so markedly on the downside - 25th June 2012
 * The new lending schemes are good but not enough - The Greek crisis has spread to Spain; Italy has moved into the crosshairs along with Cyprus - 18th June 2012
 * With central banks so passive, there's plenty of reasons to be bearish - Economic Outlook: Inflation is set to fall sharply, especially given the rapid decline in the oil price - 11th June 2012
 * Coming soon... the biggest U-turn yet as Osborne abandons austerity - Economic Outlook: The question is not if but when Mr Osborne will put more stimulusinto the economy - 5th June 2012
 * How much worse do things have to get before we get action? - Economic Outlook: Why not start temporary tax cuts and shovel ready projects right now? - 28th May 2012
 * Have the policymakers at the Bank of England gone completely nuts? - Economic Outlook: Targeting inflation hasn't delivered the promised economic stability, far from it. It is now time for a change - 21st May 2012
 * The recessiondeniers have gone strangely quiet this month - Economic Outlook: We are in the slowest recovery for a century, with no end in sight - 14th May 2012
 * Sir Mervyn missed the big one despite plenty of wake-up calls - Economic Outlook: King didn't need divine intervention, he should have looked at the data - 8th May 2012
 * The Bank needs a governor who grasps the real world - The economists failed. It is time for the practitioners to take over - 23rd April 2012
 * Slasher Osborne's in deep trouble – as new growth gloom is about to show - Government cuts are set to become an even bigger drag on growth - 16th April 2012
 * Sorry, the economic picture is not going to look any better - Some commentators have argued that the poor GDP data shouldn't be - 3rd April 2012
 * Ben Bernanke's history lesson: doing too little is worse than too much - Policy inaction in 1928 and 1929 and premature tightening were major errors - 26th March 2012
 * The Big Society? It's simply cover for a Tory attack on the state - The poor, the weak, the young, women and the unemployed are on their own in Cameron's version of the Poor Laws - 19th March 2012
 * The Bank of England gets it wrong yet again - For the umpteenth time the Bank is forecasting rapid recovery - 20th February 2012



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