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Aggregate Demand and Supply

Over a million clothing workers in Bangladesh have lost their jobs as Covid-19 brings the textile industry to a standstill

Clothing workers in Bangladesh, the South Asian country which is only second place to China in the global manufacturing of clothing, have been hit hard by the worldwide spread of Covid-19.  The plummeting demand for […]

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Consumer and Business Behaviour

The factory of the world is firing up again: China records strong growth in manufacturing activity for March

Whilst economies around the world are still on their knees, China seems to have picked itself back up again, after emerging from the worst of Covid-19’s destruction across the country. In battling the virus throughout […]

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Basic Economic Concepts

Coal: the world’s dirtiest and most damaging fossil fuel has now become the most expensive!

As students of economics, these really are crazy times we are living through! From governments paying private sector wages  to 0% interest rates, to toilet paper shortages,  the latest to add to this list is the environment’s least […]

Aggregate Demand and Supply

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

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 […]

Balance of Payments

Kenya and the US look set to sign a free-trade deal despite Trump’s attacks on global trade

Under President Trump, the US stance towards global trade has become increasingly protectionist, with billions of dollars of tariffs placed on goods from countries all over the world, engagement in a devastating trade war with […]

Balance of Payments

A trade deal between the US and China seems imminent… But what even is a Trade War and how do they fight?

Trade wars are not fought with guns, missiles, planes, or ships. Instead they are fought with the raw power of economics, and in particular a special type of tax called tariffs. These are taxes which […]