https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/ en Copyright 2008 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:12:22 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Evan Davis is now writing a new blog, as part of his new role at the Today programme. You can find it at https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/evandavis. BBC News https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/today/evandavis/ https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/today/evandavis/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:12:22 +0000 As we sit in the midst of what seems like an historic episode I find myself struck by one question: how can we have let ourselves get into this again? Didn’t we know this might happen? At least we should... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/are_we_stupid.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/are_we_stupid.html Notes on Real Life Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:12:22 +0000 Is it a good time to nationalise the banks? The taboo of nationalising a bank – evident in the government’s reluctance to accept that option for Northern Rock – may have to be overcome in the next few years. This... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/taboo_of_nationalisation.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/taboo_of_nationalisation.html Small Change Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:05 +0000 The slogan for the Budget - you mustn't grumble, it's not too bad. Sure, the next year or two is not what we thought it'd be, but it's not all permanent damage to the economy we're facing. In other words,... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/chancing_it.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/chancing_it.html Small Change Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:25:31 +0000 I was wrong an hour ago, to say the Golden Rule measure of borrowing was looking better than it had been in 2012. Sorry, bit rushed. Looking at the data, the chancellor is conceding that by 2011, the economy will... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/shrinking_economy.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/shrinking_economy.html Small Change Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:38:16 +0000 The Budget has the shape I expected… a downgrade of the near term, and a bounce back in the medium term. By 2012, the golden rule measure of borrowing actually looks better than it did back in October. I suspect... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/as_expected.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/as_expected.html Small Change Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:00:47 +0000 Alistair Darling adopted the technique beloved of his predecessor of rattling through the borrowing figures. But the news this year was good - it seems lower than it was expected to be. The bumper tax receipts that the government received... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/real_change_of_direction.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/real_change_of_direction.html Small Change Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:56:06 +0000 The economic forecast is more realistic than it was, having been downgraded this year and next. For 2008 1.75 to 2.25, for 2009 2.25 to 2.75 and for 2010, 2.5 to 3.0. The current consensus among outside forecasters is for... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/not_so_cautious.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/not_so_cautious.html Small Change Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:40:51 +0000 The world's central banks are back. They're taking collective action again - all for one and one for all. They learned back in December that co-ordinated action works better than individual action. In any case, moving together at least prevents... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/central_banks_get_together.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/03/central_banks_get_together.html Notes on Real Life Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:37:51 +0000 Have we overdone it with city centre flats? Or apartments as they are often called in the sales literature. Arrive at almost any railway station - from Norwich to Nottingham - and you can't help but be struck by how... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/flat_market.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/flat_market.html Notes on Real Life Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:13:23 +0000 This title is not a BBC correspondent adopting a slogan the British National Party might use. It is a statement of fact. Migrants go home, as well as arrive in our country, with consequences for the economy. And at this... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/migrants_go_home.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/migrants_go_home.html Notes on Real Life Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:09:21 +0000 Nationalising a bank is a big deal. But it is not unprecedented. It is worth reading the history of Continental Illinois, nationalised by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1984. You can get the full story from the FDIC... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/banking__parallels.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/banking__parallels.html Notes on Real Life Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:22:07 +0000 Today's decision was unusual in that it could have gone three ways - it could have conceivably been a half point cut or no cut at all. The reason there's such a wide span of options is that the economy... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/splitting_the_difference_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/02/splitting_the_difference_1.html Notes on Real Life Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:29:31 +0000 I don't like to reduce the hard work of the much respected Institute for Fiscal Studies and Morgan Stanley to a single number. Their annual Green Budget is after all 299 pages long. (It is nothing to do with environment... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/01/todays_number_eight_billion_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/01/todays_number_eight_billion_1.html Notes on Real Life Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:45:39 +0000 Is there such a thing as a "cathartic recession"? A recession that purges the demons of excess from the economy and punishes the badly-behaved for their sins? I'm not sure there is. But I unwittingly found myself in an argument... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/01/can_recession_be_healthy.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/01/can_recession_be_healthy.html Notes on Real Life Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:20:21 +0000 Sometimes it's the "Davos fringe" which provides the most stimulating discussions. To that end, I just enjoyed a constructive 15 minute diversion from the sub-prime blues, chatting with an American anthropologist called Helen Fisher about love. (You should be able... Evan Davis (BBC News) https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/01/the_importance_of_love.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2008/01/the_importance_of_love.html Notes on Real Life Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:57:42 +0000