theRatandMouse (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Mr Blatherskite thinks we're near the bottom of the bust [Blatherskite] Capital Economics disagree [Telegraph] In depth economics [4homes forum] Faith in Darling and Brown? Nobody wants to bet on it [Telegraph] MPC's David Blanchflower: See? I'm not as...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Policymakers should have started cutting interest rates much sooner to help prevent an economic crisis in Britain, Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Fat Man on a Keyboard (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Beware of this blog. It might be catching. According to reported research : Obesity could be socially contagious, according to new research by two of Britain's leading economists. Professor David Blanchflower, who sits on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, and Professor Andrew Oswald, an expert on the economics of wellbeing, claim that the nation's expanding waistline could be down to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Obesity could be socially contagious, according to new research by two of Britain's leading economists. Professor David Blanchflower, who sits on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, and Professor Andrew Oswald, an expert on the economics of wellbeing, claim that the nation's expanding waistline could be down to people subconsciously trying to 'keep up with the weight of the Joneses'....
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The British are nothing if not insouciant at times of crisis. Bank of England Governor Mervyn King opened a recent rather severe speech on the economic unrest with a gentle anecdote about schoolboy cricket. David Blanchflower, the most bearish of the central bank's monetary policy committee, prefaced his latest Jeremiad by talking about hop-picking in Kent.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower said the bank must cut its interest rate soon, and by a significant measure, to ward off the threat of deflation as the British economy enters a recession.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower said the bank must cut its interest rate soon, and by a significant measure, to ward off the threat of deflation as the British economy enters a recession. Speaking ahead of a scheduled rate decision from the...
Finance Markets (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Professor David Blanchflower, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), is calling for aggressive interest rate cuts in order to boost Britain’s economy and stave off the prospect of a deep and prolonged recession. In response, Chancellor Alistair Darling appeared to be supporting Prof Blanchflower’s call after he stressed that while [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Monetary Policy Committee member David Blanchflower last night demanded “significant” further cuts in benchmark UK interest rates to ward off “deep and long-lasting recession”, warning inflation could turn negative.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
CANTERBURY (Reuters) - The credit crisis could turn out to be more far-reaching even than the 1929 crash and big interest rate cuts are needed to avoid a deep recession, Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower said on Wednesday.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
The Bank of England did not act fast enough to cut interest rates and may now have consigned the country to a long and painful recession one of its own leading policymakers has admitted.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower has warned that interest rates must come down immediately a week before the October decision is made by the Monetary Policy Committee.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Interest rates need to come down to reflect the deteriorating economic outlook, Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower told a regional newspaper.
Stumbling and Mumbling (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The decision to open the UK labour market to immigrants from the former Soviet bloc was “a stroke of genius.” So says the MPC’s David Blanchflower in this new paper. He shows that migrants from the A10 countries are much...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Letters: In your (almost) daily call for deep interest rate cuts you repeat the poor economic analysis by Professor David Blanchflower
