Using Pay As You Earn data to identify and adjust for potential employment-related non-response to the Labour Force Survey. These are not official statistics.

For once we should thank the Office for National Statistics for its productivity reporting

Tim Harford investigates bad productivity data, AI carbon, nuns and quiet album ends.

On 17 September, the ONS will publish its new component-based approach to measuring hours worked. This webinar discusses the implications of the new methodology and what it means for policymakers.

YouTube video by Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence

Warsh’s Awful Communications: Knowingly Opaque. Also in this newsletter, the BoE shows how it’s done

Governments have stopped correcting budget deficits but — so far — bond markets have let them

Silicon Warsh is a hawk

John Healey will be under pressure on many fronts, but bear-pits are lurking . . .

The new US central bank chief is reluctant to signal future interest rate moves — how will hedge funds react?

The consensus backing more local power sharing rarely confronts fundamental trade-offs

Under Sir Mervyn King, the Bank of England has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful central banks