Marketplace
Hot Air And Bribes
‘A dreary and tacky lot of politicians tried to bribe floating voters with the fantasy of “government money”’
Krugmanomics
“Contrary to Paul Krugman’s bluster, Britain has experienced less fiscal austerity under Cameron than the US under Obama”
Assessing Osborne
‘Osborne appears to have achieved the miraculous. He has combined budgetary overspending with a reduction in cost of the debt burden’
Our Drop In Productivity Explained
“The boom in the output of the financial sector was a boom in productivity. This has been stopped in its tracks by bureaucracy and regulation.”
Osborne’s Lack of Austerity
“Why have international investors and domestic savings institutions not sold off British government debt in anger at the slow progress on budgetary restraint?”
They’ve Never Had It So Bad
‘The Great Recession of 2008 knocked many assumptions but it knocked the assumptions of the young worst of all’
Busting the Boom Myths
‘Yes, net mortgage debt has increased in the last few years. But no, reports of a boom are unjustified and wrong’
What is the EU’s True Cost?
The must be clearer information on the cost of Britain’s EU membership
Puny Putin
Russia may dominate world maps, but it is an economic pygmy compared with the developed nations as a bloc
We’re All Lobbyists Now
Do you know what a “consultant lobbyist” does?
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal