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Interest rate in the UK has been cut to lowest in history – what a time to be studying economics!

March 20, 2020 TheCuriousEconomist Comments Off

For the second time in a week, the Bank of England has cut interest rates in an attempt to rescue the UK economy from the jaws of a coronavirus induced crash. In an unprecedented move, […]

Now this is monetary policy: US Federal Reserve is throwing everything it’s got at the coronavirus

March 16, 2020 TheCuriousEconomist Comments Off

In an unprecedented move today, the US federal reserve, which controls and coordinates American monetary policy, has announced a cocktail of measures to combat the economic fallout from the coronavirus which utilises almost every weapon […]