The Edge

Richard Northedge takes on corporate finance

Archive for the ‘Interest Rates’ category

Blanchflower on the real economic truth

Interest rates will fall and inflation will plummet. That’s official: the Bank of England quietly said it while it thought no-one was listening.
(more…)


Interest rates will fall so get on and do it now

It won’t help much but it won’t do much harm either, so if people want an interest rate cut, go on - let them have it.
(more…)


Cutting interest rates can only help

There are many sound reasons for not cutting UK interest rates, but so what; let’s just cut anyway. It won’t do much good, but if it cheers up people, why worry about theoretical economics?
(more…)