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Prices & interest rates

Prices & interest rates • 22 Feb 21

How has Brexit affected the value of sterling?
Energy & climate change • 24 May 22

Why are UK energy prices rising?
Prices & interest rates • 21 Jan 22

What is supply chain inflation and why is it driving up consumer prices now?
Banks & financial markets • 17 Mar 23

Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 18 May 21

Would taxes on unhealthy foods reduce obesity?
Prices & interest rates • 21 Jun 22

How is the war in Ukraine affecting global food prices?
Aid & international development • 07 Aug 20

How is coronavirus affecting emerging markets and developing economies?
Banks & financial markets • 05 Jan 21

Are Bitcoin and other digital currencies the future of money?
Prices & interest rates • 11 Nov 21

How has inflation behaved during the pandemic?
Aid & international development • 30 Mar 22

How is the war in Ukraine affecting global food security?
Prices & interest rates • 12 May 22

How does inflation affect the economy when interest rates are near zero?
Families & households • 19 Oct 21

Does rent control work?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Feb 23

What does the latest rise in interest rates tell us about the UK economy?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 11 May 21

How might increases in the UK minimum wage affect jobs, work and pay?
Recession & recovery • 07 Jul 20

Is the Covid-19 recession caused by supply or demand factors?
Business, big & small • 30 Oct 20

How is coronavirus affecting the UK’s retail sector?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 27 May 20

What is the size of the fiscal multiplier?
News • 30 Sep 22

What’s happening to the UK economy?
Business, big & small • 28 Jul 22

How is the cost of living crisis affecting retailers and their customers?
Prices & interest rates • 29 May 20

What should we do about price gouging?
Pensions, savings & investment • 03 Nov 22

How does inflation affect asset prices?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 20 May 22

Should the UK impose a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 27 Jul 20

What are the fiscal consequences of the UK response to coronavirus?
Prices & interest rates • 27 May 22

What might be the macroeconomic cost of the war in Ukraine?
Lessons from history • 18 Oct 22

Industrial action: is the UK going back to the 1970s?
Prices & interest rates • 27 May 20

Quantitative easing and monetary financing: what’s the difference?
Lessons from history • 25 Jul 22

Sterling crisis: what are the historical precedents?
Energy & climate change • 26 May 22

What does the war in Ukraine mean for the geopolitics of energy prices?
Inequality & poverty • 08 Sep 22

How might the cost of living crisis affect long-term poverty?
Banks & financial markets • 10 Dec 21

Why has the price of Bitcoin risen/fallen in the past day/week/month?
Nations, regions & cities • 28 Apr 22

What has been the economic impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 15 Aug 22

Are wages keeping up with the cost of living?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 13 Apr 21

How might Uber drivers’ new status as workers affect the gig economy?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 20 Jan 22

What is happening with UK wages?
Prices & interest rates • 18 Aug 20

How did central banks respond to the coronavirus crisis?
Prices & interest rates • 23 Jun 20

How has coronavirus affected prices in the supermarket?
Lessons from history • 11 Apr 22

How has inflation been fought in the past?
Prices & interest rates • 15 Jul 20

After coronavirus: deflation or inflation?
Banks & financial markets • 23 Jun 22

Why are cryptocurrencies crashing?
Aid & international development • 06 Mar 23

What are the big economic challenges facing the government in Iran?
Prices & interest rates • 09 Apr 21

How are economic models adapting to rising inequality and the pandemic?
Families & households • 05 Oct 20

Might coronavirus bring a lasting shift to online spending?
Prices & interest rates • 27 May 20

‘Monetary financing’: is it happening and what are the dangers?
Recession & recovery • 15 Jun 21

Will inflation take off in the UK?
Energy & climate change • 29 Nov 22

How are rising energy prices affecting the UK economy?
Prices & interest rates • 29 Jun 22

What next for the UK housing market?
Data stories • 26 Oct 22

What can the latest UK GDP data tell us about the economy?
Banks & financial markets • 21 Oct 22

What can happen when economic policy-makers lose credibility?
Energy & climate change • 09 Nov 22

How is the cost of living crisis affecting net-zero policies?
Lessons from history • 10 Jan 22

What are the lessons from history for digital currency?

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