Thanks to all the contacts we met in Buckinghamshire on Wed and Thu for giving Dave Ramsden (Deputy Governor Bank of England #bankofengland) a clear view of what’s going on in the economy. Niftylift Worldwide founder Roger Bowden showed Dave round their fascinating factory…

Ercol Furniture Ercol Outlet Henry Allmand (chief exec Heart of Bucks) and his team hosted a #boecommunityforum, where representatives of nine local charities outlined to Dave how cost-of-living pressures are affecting the people they help and the charities themselves.

🧵SWP 1044 by Julia Giese (BoE) + Charlotte Grace (U of Oxford) looks at how the shift to product mix auctions for Indexed Long-Term Repo auctions in June 2010 affected the workings of the repo market. bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/…

ICYMI: Applications open for our Houblon-Norman/George Fellowships...

🧵SWP 1045 by Rodrigo Guimaraes, Gabor Pinter + Jean-Charles Wijnandts (all BoE) explores how bond market liquidity affects how long-term treasury yields reacts to US monetary policy shocks. bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/…

Thank you to the team BrightHR_ for hosting the Economic Update #webinar last week. A great turnout of business leaders across the #NorthWest and UK.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform financial services. Together with @theFCA, we published a feedback statement summarising responses to our discussion paper on AI and machine learning. b-o-e.uk/3s5QzX0

Slavery & the Bank has been open for 18 months now, and one of the most rewarding aspects has been reading your thoughts and reflections on our visitor response cards. Scroll through the thread to see an example of a response for each prompt. 🧵👇

What was the Bank of England like in the eighteenth century? Join Professor Anne Murphy (@18thc_finance) in her upcoming talk, 'In Search of Virtuous Bankers,' as she considers the idea of virtue at the Bank of England in the eighteenth century. 🗓️: 16 November, 6.15 to 7.15pm

Join us for our Citizens Panels in Bristol and Nottingham and have your say on how the economic situation is affecting you. Bristol - Monday 13 November, 5.45pm-8pm Nottingham - Wednesday 15 November, 5.45pm-8pm Registration closes on 6 November: b-o-e.uk/47a4Twq

Higher interest rates are helping to bring inflation down. This means the speed at which prices rise is slowing. We expect inflation to fall further this year. b-o-e.uk/MPR-Nov-2023 #inflation #MonetaryPolicyReport

Governor Andrew Bailey explains today’s interest rate decision.

🚨Final call for applying to our PhD programme! 🚨 Applications close tomorrow, 13 November (2359 UK time, 0059 CET, 1859 EST). Best of luck to all job market candidates!

Våra kollegor på Sveriges Riksbank har precis lanserat en ny ‘X handle’ för deras forskningsaktiviteter. Välkomna till #econtwitter! Our colleagues at the Sveriges Riksbank have set up a new handle specifically for their research activities. Welcome to #econtwitter! Sveriges Riksbank Research

This article sets out aspects of the Bank of England’s experience of its gilt market intervention that may have a wider application, and draws some lessons from them. b-o-e.uk/3syfkvf

Dickens based the character of Mr Micawber in David Copperfield on his father, particularly his [mis]management of money. The character famously says “Annual income £20, annual expenditure £19.66, result happiness. Annual income £20, annual expenditure £20.06, result misery.”

BU post looks at how house prices changes affect mortgage LTVs, and feed through to mortgage pricing. Explores how falling prices and rising LTV spreads might affect repayment costs. bankunderground.co.uk/2023/11/23/why…

We have published our Centre for Central Banking Studies (CCBS) 2024 events programme. Most will be held virtually for central bank experts and global regulators. The programme covers January - July and later events will be added in due course. b-o-e.uk/47si4tc

Something #small for today from the Archive. Please excuse the pun! This is part of an index to a type of stock managed by the Bank of England called Navy five per cents. Here we can see entries for people with the surname ‘Small.' 🧐

Interesting BoE analysis on US supply-chain exposure to China. Conclusion: much greater than it seems! bankunderground.co.uk/2023/11/29/sup… via @boe_research