Britain becomes more free as coalition policies bite
Britain is more free due to the coalition's economic plans, but a new report shows that the EU may still be hampering British businesses
- 10 January 2013
Owen Jones and the Left's fantasy economics
No matter how much living standards rise, wages increase, and technology continues to liberate our lives, it will never be enough for the Owen Joneses of this world
- 14 December 2012
The left's bully tactics and the shifting of goalposts
The Left's tactics over Starbucks and the NHS show that it is not committed to economic recovery - and the right is failing too
- 11 December 2012
In defence of economics
The juvenile dumbness of stating that there is no such thing as economic reality is a type of stupidity hard to overstate
- 11 December 2012
Only 6% realise debt is still rising
Debt is rising and the public is unaware - do we blame politicians, the media, both, or the public themselves?
- 5 December 2012
UK exit costly... for the EU
The price of leaving the European Union will be high, argues Simon Miller. But not necessarily for the UK
- 9 November 2012
What is quantitative easing doing?
QE has helped fuel a higher rate of inflation in the UK than in most other major advanced economies. This in turn has cut real incomes and reduced spending power in the economy
- 25 October 2012
Stop worrying about Greece leaving the euro. It won’t happen
What are we all worrying about? Greece won't leave the Euro - Jean-Claude Juncker says so.
- 22 May 2012
Discord over Argentina leaves gaping hole for defaults across the recession-troubled world
The Argentinian Ambassador to the UK will be speaking at the London School of Economics on Thursday. But what will she say to us?
- 16 May 2012
Is Hugo Rifkind always this wrong?
Hugo Rifkind is precisely the problem with British politics. Left-leaning, instinctively statist and wrong about everything.
- 12 May 2012
In defence of open-ended growth
Creative destruction and market adaptation will ensure the status quo never remains. So what are alarmists scared of?
- 6 May 2012
Want to help reduce global deficits? Make Argentina pay!
The global net loss from Argentina's shirking of responsibility is over $157bn
- 27 April 2012
Does socialism work? A classroom experiment
Most intelligent people realise that socialism could never work. Here is why, in the simplest fashion
- 17 November 2011
Quantitative easing: why it doesn't work.
People will ring alarm bells and tell you QE is necessary. Many of them will be Garrison’s capitalists. But one thing they cannot tell you is that QE is fair.
- 13 October 2011
A Nobel Prize is not a noble title.
We must be careful not to take the Nobel Prize in Economic Science out of context because as Hayek noted, it can confer "on an individual an authority which, in economics, no man ought to possess".
- 10 October 2011
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