As a new year begins and the blog starts fresh in 2025, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the highlights of the blog in 2024.
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Our top five posts of 2023
Rebecca Freeman
As another year draws to an end and the blog prepares for some downtime over the festive period, we wanted to take a look back at the blog in 2023.
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As is our annual tradition, we take a look back and present you once more with our most popular posts of the year. In case you missed any of them the first time round, the five most viewed posts for 2022 were:
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As another year draws to an end and the blog prepares for some downtime over the festive period, we wanted to take a look back at the blog in 2021.
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Belinda Tracey
As another year draws to an end and the blog prepares for some downtime over the festive period, we wanted to take a look back at the blog in 2020.
Continue reading “Our top five posts of 2020”Launch of the new Bank of England Agenda for Research
Today the Bank launched the new ‘Bank of England Agenda for Research’ setting out the key areas for new research over the coming years and a set of priority topics for 2021. The agenda is available on the Bank’s website here.
Belinda Tracey, Managing Editor
Bank Underground turns 5!
John Lewis and Belinda Tracey
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Bank Underground! On 19 June 2015 we launched with our maiden pair of posts on how driverless cars might shake up the insurance industry and optimal monetary policy in the presence of an effective lower bound.
Continue reading “Bank Underground turns 5!”Temporary pause to Bank Underground
Given our need to reprioritise staff resources towards responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ll be temporarily pausing publishing posts on Bank Underground. We will review this periodically and hope to resume soon.
Belinda Tracey, Managing Editor
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Our top five posts of 2019
As another year draws to an end, we wanted to take a look back at the blog in 2019. In case you missed any of them the first time round, the five most viewed posts for the year were:
- Handel and the Bank of England
- Houses are assets not goods: part 1 and part 2
- The ownership of central banks
- Opening the machine learning black box
- What happens when ‘angels fall’?
We hope you enjoyed the blog in 2019. Happy New Year and we look forward to you reading our posts in 2020!
Belinda Tracey, Managing Editor
Our top five posts of 2018
As the year draws to a close and the blog prepares for a couple of weeks’ downtime over the festive period, we recap on the five most viewed posts for the year. They span a wide range of topics including the reason for weak productivity growth, the macroeconomic effects of demographic change, what steeper yield curves mean for bank profitability, the future prospects for digital currencies, and drivers of consumer credit growth.
If you missed any of them first time round, this is a good chance to catch up on the posts that your fellow readers liked (or at least read) the most:
- The seven deadly paradoxes of cryptocurrency
- Population ageing and the macroeconomy
- Is a steeper yield curve good news for banks? A challenge to conventional wisdom
- The UK’s productivity puzzle is in the top tail of distribution
- Who’s driving consumer credit growth
We hope you enjoyed the blog in 2018. Happy Christmas and we look forward to you reading our posts in 2019!
John Lewis, Managing Editor