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Banks & financial markets • 25 May 23

How has the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected global financial markets?
Banks & financial markets • 13 Apr 23

Why did Credit Suisse fail and what does it mean for banking regulation?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Mar 23

Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Feb 23

What does the latest rise in interest rates tell us about the UK economy?
Banks & financial markets • 24 Jan 23

Will the Edinburgh Reforms help to boost UK consumer spending?
Banks & financial markets • 28 Nov 22

Fiscal and current account deficits: what threat to UK economic stability?
Banks & financial markets • 09 Nov 22

How will climate change affect public finances and sovereign risk?
Banks & financial markets • 08 Nov 22

The birth of inflation targeting: why did the ERM crisis happen?
Banks & financial markets • 21 Oct 22

What can happen when economic policy-makers lose credibility?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Oct 22

How important is the City to the UK economy?
Banks & financial markets • 11 Oct 22

Banking crises: who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and why?
Banks & financial markets • 06 Oct 22

Is fintech disrupting the banking sector?
Banks & financial markets • 12 Sep 22

How can new financial technologies help to tackle social exclusion?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Jun 22

Why are cryptocurrencies crashing?
Banks & financial markets • 17 May 22

How did the first Monetary Policy Committee members pursue their mandate?
Banks & financial markets • 06 May 22

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee at 25: where next?
Banks & financial markets • 01 Apr 22

Currency choice of an independent Scotland: what role for the central bank?
Banks & financial markets • 31 Jan 22

What would the currency options be for an independent Scotland?
Banks & financial markets • 25 Jan 22

What new institutions of economic policy would an independent Scotland need?
Banks & financial markets • 11 Jan 22

Should central banks develop their own digital currencies?
Banks & financial markets • 10 Dec 21

Why has the price of Bitcoin risen/fallen in the past day/week/month?
Banks & financial markets • 01 Jul 21

How are developing economies coping with the Covid-19 crisis?
Banks & financial markets • 14 Jun 21

Dogecoin: what is it and does it have any value?
Banks & financial markets • 24 May 21

Are we in the middle of a tech bubble?
Banks & financial markets • 16 Feb 21

How can green finance foster a sustainable recovery after Covid-19?
Banks & financial markets • 29 Jan 21

GameStop: what is going on with prices in the US stock market?
Banks & financial markets • 05 Jan 21

Are Bitcoin and other digital currencies the future of money?
Banks & financial markets • 08 Dec 20

How is Covid-19 affecting financial cooperatives?
Banks & financial markets • 15 Oct 20

How is coronavirus affecting the insurance industry?
Banks & financial markets • 01 Oct 20

Why has the stock market bounced back when the economy seems so bad?
Banks & financial markets • 04 Sep 20

Will coronavirus accelerate the move towards a cashless economy?
Banks & financial markets • 13 Aug 20

How is coronavirus affecting the banking sector?
Banks & financial markets • 01 Jul 20

Is the banking sector safer than during the global financial crisis?
Banks & financial markets • 19 Jun 20

How do changes in asset prices affect the real economy?
Banks & financial markets • 26 May 20

What explains stock market reactions to the pandemic?
News • 31 Mar 23

Banks, budgets and birthdays
Families & households • 02 Mar 23

How does the housing market affect financial and economic stability?
Inequality & poverty • 28 Feb 23

How does the housing market affect wealth inequality?
Energy & climate change • 02 Feb 23

How can carbon tagging digital payments help to tackle climate change?
News • 23 Nov 22

#economicsfest: What future for big data and regulation of the tech giants?
Pensions, savings & investment • 03 Nov 22

How does inflation affect asset prices?
Data stories • 26 Oct 22

What can the latest UK GDP data tell us about the economy?
Families & households • 12 Oct 22

Update: What next for the UK housing market?
News • 30 Sep 22

What’s happening to the UK economy?
Lessons from history • 25 Jul 22

Sterling crisis: what are the historical precedents?
Prices & interest rates • 29 Jun 22

What next for the UK housing market?
News • 24 Jun 22

Summer of discontent
Recession & recovery • 16 May 22

Russia’s 1998 currency crisis: what lessons for today?
Prices & interest rates • 12 May 22

How does inflation affect the economy when interest rates are near zero?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 25 Apr 22

How might an independent Scotland manage public debt?

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