In 2016, Flassbeck-economics provided extensive comment and analysis of the caucuses, the primaries and the ultimate presidential election in the USA. Afterwards, I wrote up a long piece trying to explain Trump’s victory. I pointed towards a variety of reasons, the two most important ones were Clinton’s economic program and her pro-war stance. …
Chesterton’s pub fallacy
In the first part of this article, I showed that the UK has done poorly economically since the referendum. GDP growth is down. It is now 0.4% lower than the EU average of 0.6% (less than GDP growth in Greece!). …
It has been a year since a narrow majority of British voters voted in favour of Brexit. The result has triggered a never-ending debate about its economic and political effects. How do things stand one year later? Last week, Agelos Delis presented some figures in The Conversation (see here). …
On Monday the 19th of June, Britain started its negotiations with the EU. This first phase of the talks will tackle three main areas: safeguarding the rights of citizens; financial settlement of the UK’s obligations and the new external borders of the EU. …
