Marketplace

‘George Osborne’s scary referendum campaign rhetoric about a return of the Great Recession now looks preposterous’

“Free trade is good for you, and protectionism is bad. It’s as simple as that”

“Does economic punditry have to be akin to horror films? The last six years have been the most stable in the past four decades”

‘Economists’ assertion of professional status is spurious because of the utter shambles that is macroeconomics’

‘The European Court of Justice has a record of deciding cases not in accordance with the wording of treaties and legislation, but with the furtherance of the power of EU institutions’

‘Since the referendum, not only have jobs been created, but the rate of job creation has been better than normal’

‘Jeremy Corbyn said he was “sympathetic” to cancelling past student debt. It was a blatant bid for the bourgeois university vote’

‘Addled thinking about the BBC’s status seems to be characteristic of leafy-suburb leftism’

“Many Brexit and Trump voters resented the exent to which national power had been transferred to international institutions like the EU and the IMF”