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Prices & interest rates

Prices & interest rates • 22 Feb 21

How has Brexit affected the value of sterling?
Prices & interest rates • 21 Jan 22

What is supply chain inflation and why is it driving up consumer prices now?
Aid & international development • 07 Aug 20

How is coronavirus affecting emerging markets and developing economies?
Energy & climate change • 24 May 22

Why are UK energy prices rising?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 18 May 21

Would taxes on unhealthy foods reduce obesity?
Banks & financial markets • 05 Jan 21

Are Bitcoin and other digital currencies the future of money?
Aid & international development • 30 Mar 22

How is the war in Ukraine affecting global food security?
Prices & interest rates • 11 Nov 21

How has inflation behaved during the pandemic?
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?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 11 May 21

How might increases in the UK minimum wage affect jobs, work and pay?
Families & households • 19 Oct 21

Does rent control work?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 27 May 20

What is the size of the fiscal multiplier?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 27 Jul 20

What are the fiscal consequences of the UK response to coronavirus?
Prices & interest rates • 12 May 22

How does inflation affect the economy when interest rates are near zero?
Prices & interest rates • 29 May 20

What should we do about price gouging?
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?
Prices & interest rates • 15 Jul 20

After coronavirus: deflation or inflation?
Prices & interest rates • 27 May 20

Quantitative easing and monetary financing: what’s the difference?
Banks & financial markets • 10 Dec 21

Why has the price of Bitcoin risen/fallen in the past day/week/month?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 13 Apr 21

How might Uber drivers’ new status as workers affect the gig economy?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 20 May 22

Should the UK impose a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits?
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?
Nations, regions & cities • 28 Apr 22

What has been the economic impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
Jobs, work, pay & benefits • 20 Jan 22

What is happening with UK wages?
Recession & recovery • 15 Jun 21

Will inflation take off in the UK?
Data stories • 07 Feb 22

What do the latest data reveal about UK house prices?
Prices & interest rates • 27 May 20

‘Monetary financing’: is it happening and what are the dangers?
Prices & interest rates • 25 May 20

How can we measure consumer price inflation in a lockdown?
Prices & interest rates • 29 Jun 22

What next for the UK housing market?
Prices & interest rates • 02 Feb 21

How has the Fed responded to the Covid-19 recession?
Prices & interest rates • 27 May 22

What might be the macroeconomic cost of the war in Ukraine?
Data stories • 04 May 22

How are rising rents affecting the UK’s cost of living crisis?
Lessons from history • 10 Jan 22

What are the lessons from history for digital currency?
Prices & interest rates • 22 Dec 20

Do we need a new constitution for central banking?
Recession & recovery • 20 Jul 20

Should Modern Monetary Theory inform economic policy in the crisis?
Nations, regions & cities • 19 Jan 21

Why are supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland empty?
Prices & interest rates • 31 Mar 21

What will be the impact of changes in the US monetary policy framework?
Banks & financial markets • 01 Apr 22

Currency choice of an independent Scotland: what role for the central bank?
Trade & supply chains • 19 Jul 21

How is Brexit affecting the role of sterling in UK trade?
Lessons from history • 11 Apr 22

How has inflation been fought in the past?
Energy & climate change • 22 Mar 22

How is the cost of living crisis affecting net-zero policies?
Energy & climate change • 26 May 22

What does the war in Ukraine mean for the geopolitics of energy prices?
Data stories • 19 Apr 22

What do the latest UK inflation data mean for the cost of living crisis?
Prices & interest rates • 28 Aug 20

Should the Bank of England use negative interest rates in response to the crisis?
Lessons from history • 20 Jun 22

Inflation past and present: how have we measured the rising cost of living?
Prices & interest rates • 21 Jun 22

How is the war in Ukraine affecting global food prices?
Data stories • 20 Jul 21

UK inflation: What do the latest data tell us?

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