A vicious leadership contest has culminated with Liz Truss’ accession to the premiership. Promising radical reforms to the British economy, Truss represents a stark contest with the establishment candidate, Rishi Sunak. With pledges to radically cut the state, addressing the struggling supply side of the British economy, Truss represents a breath of fresh air fromContinue reading “Liz Truss: Supply Side Reform”
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Roaring Twenties to Depressing ’30s
A common misconception is the attribution of the Great Depression to the failures of Capitalism. Excessive greed from Wall Street Capitalists, artificially inflating the NYSE through speculation, produced an economic calamity – a tale told by Socialists and misguided historians alike. While the Wall Street Crash of 1929 provoked an initial economic contraction, the declineContinue reading “Roaring Twenties to Depressing ’30s”
Friedman’s Fallacies
The most influential economist of the late 20th century, Milton Friedman, had a revolutionary effect on today’s world. The turn of 1980 marked a rebirth of economic liberalism and monetarism, a departure from the misguided stop-go monetary and Keynesian fiscal policies. The work of Friedman gave free market leaders in Reagan and Thatcher the frameworkContinue reading “Friedman’s Fallacies”
Inflation Promotion Act?
Faced with the prospect of a tidal wave of Democratic Party losses in the upcoming midterms, the first incoherent President embarked on a mission to pass what he termed the most ‘progressive bill’ since FDR. Slimmed down from the infamous ‘Build Back Better’ bill that featured a series of unfunded spending pledges, the wasteful spendingContinue reading “Inflation Promotion Act?”
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