Evan Davis, 'man of mystery'

For those interested in knowing more about BBC Economics Editor Evan Davis, The Observer ran a profile by Carole Cadwalladr yesterday: 'Think of me as a man of mystery'

'The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: "Are houseprices going to go down?" and "Is it a good time to fix my mortgate rate?"' (Answers: maybe, and yes, if you can't afford for them to go up) - and the fact that the economy simply isn't as interesting as it was in the Seventies and Eighties.

'Don't you ever wake up on a Monday morning and hope for a nice juicy story about a recession?' I say and he gets quite earnest and says, 'No, I really don't. I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring ... The more boring the better. We can do the fun stuff. The interesting stuff about business, and microeconomics and celebrities and their tattoos and whatever ...'

Comments

[Edward Hugh]

"the fact that the economy simply isn't as interesting as it was in the Seventies and Eighties."

My god! Do he and I live on the same planet. Economics has never been more 'interesting' (well in fact perhaps it is always interesting, since the world is a constantly changing place, and yesterday's problems are always the boring ones). I don't think I'll even bother to try and ennumerate the host of fascinatingly interesting (new) things that are actually going on right now, as we speak, but they seem to have passed our Evan by, like silent ships in the night.

[Rowetta]

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. HE IS MY WORLD.

my name is mike
i drive a bike
i LIKE MY BIKE,

LOVE YOU EVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!