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Dollar’s correlation with Treasury yields breaks down on.ft.com/4kO5s63

Global economy set for weakest growth since Covid-19, OECD warns on.ft.com/4mE35nT

Trump’s combative trade policies have tipped the world economy into a downturn clouded in heightened uncertainty, with the US among the hardest hit, the OECD says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Very welcome development and one of a number of issues flagged in recent SPU work linkedin.com/posts/jodie-ca…

Ulster University research shows the cost-of-living crisis is reducing access to sport and physical activity for children and adolescents in Northern Ireland, with lower-income families most affected. Read more: ow.ly/hWTL50W3TRx #WeAreUU

Great to see this important work on the funding of water in NI. There are growing costs of policy inaction in NI, economically, socially and environmentally. We must start to acknowledge these, or we will incur significant future detriment.

🚨The latest #BBCRedLines… Discussing today’s Comprehensive Spending Review including its impact on #CasementPark with JPCampbellBiz Andrew Webb Prof Jodie Carson & @McGeehanStephen from Ulster GAA… Listen to the #BBCRedLines podcast here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

If Trump's tariff regime endures, the world economy will lose $1 trillion by 2030, and will cost the US 690,000 jobs, Bloomberg Economics predicts bloomberg.com/news/features/…

The ten-year yield's noticeable rise today further reinforces the historically unusual behavior of US government bonds. This is occurring amidst continued Israeli attacks on Iran and, more generally, a thickening geopolitical cloud hanging over the global economy and markets.

Those concerned about a strengthening stagflationary wind in the global economy will take note of today's UK and Japan data releases. UK retail sales in May plunged by 2.7%, marking the most significant contraction in 18 months and significantly missing the consensus forecast of

This might push up oil prices but it will also anger Iran's number one customer for oil: China

Infrastructure capacity constraints impacting NI economic growth bbc.com/news/articles/…

My Times piece: There’s a lot of uncertainty around. How much will it hamper growth? One thing is certain: constant uncertainty damages business thetimes.com/article/e00525…

Uk Gov economic policy needs to incentivise inclusive growth and improved societal wellbeing. A focus on taxing wealth will drive outward flight in capital, labour and skills. As a society we will only be poorer for that.

Per the Financial Times and further to my earlier posts: “The dollar index, which measures the currency’s strength against a basket of six others including the pound, euro and yen, has slumped more than 10 per cent so far in 2025, the worst start to the year since the end of the gold-backed

For some time now, it has been clear that politics, rather than economic logic and experience, is driving the decisions in most areas of economic policymaking. What is now becoming more evident is that politics is increasingly muscling its way into, and even dictating at times,

🤓Possibly my favourite ever Office for Budget Responsibility chart👇 The green line is what the Government tells us is going to happen to the national debt at each Budget (up a bit then down). The yellow line is what actually happens (up, up, up)

My Times piece: When taxes change too often it creates uncertainty and instability and hits activity. So it has been with stamp duty over the past few years: Real-life experiment proves stamp duty changes create uncertainty thetimes.com/article/e143eb…