Trump, May et al must cut government to get growth
As Trump prepares for power, America, Britain and the whole world must understand that smaller government vastly increases societal wealth for all, as new research shows. Trust in free markets not failed bureaucrats
- 12 November 2016
Should the government drop its Hs?
Hinkley, Heathrow, HS2? It would be a very brave government that swept away all these. It would need to have ready a good list of other projects that could be smarter and yield better returns, with realistic and quicker deadlines for undertaking them
- 21 September 2016
HS2: An analogue solution in a digital world
HS2 is an analogue solution in a digital world. It is corporatist waste gone mad. The 50 billion the government is about to flush down the toilet should be spent on giving us a free, comprehensive internet architecture that's the eny of the world
- 2 June 2015
Amazing admission on how feminist policies can hurt women
Feminism was long ago hijacked by the Left. But if you concentrate on measures that help or harm women in the real world, you see statist policies ostensibly designed to help, often do more harm than good
- 27 May 2015
Big government failure and the Baltimore riots
With the riots in Baltimore in mind, let's not forget that it is big state Democrats who have been running the city for almost all of the last four decades. They haven't reduced poverty but they have made other problems a whole lot worse. Margaret Thatcher grasped the root of the problem years ago
- 30 April 2015
Flexible working could add billions to UK economy -- Report
A report has found that flexible working schemes could cut 533m hours a year in commuting time, saving British employees an annual £3.8bn, which rises to £7.1bn when the full commuter value of time is taken into account
- 9 December 2014
Basic, blooming economics: Don't you get it?
From the Chancellor to the journalists at the BBC, Sky, the Telegraph et al does anyone actually understand basic economics these days? Our societal leaders are serving us up with merde pie, says the irrepressible Godfrey Bloom
- 7 December 2014
The odious corruption enabled by big government
Whatever you may have persuaded yourself to believe, you do not live under neo-liberalism. This is the era of corporatism: big government, big business and political parties rigging the game in their favour
- 24 November 2014
How Washington profits by pillaging America
As a taxpayer, I don’t like overpaid bureaucrats. But as an economist, I’m even more upset that human capital is being misallocated to unproductive purposes. Big government means big waste
- 5 November 2014
South Africa’s grim economic future
The Pistorius trial has focused the world's attention on its judicial system and its gun crime problem. But for most South Africans there is a daily grind and a grim economic future that the media has largely ignored
- 12 September 2014
The simple lesson to learn from global economics
You almost have to feel sorry for statists when they fumble, stumble, duck, and weave when asked why global evidence time and again shows that more free markets and lest statism dramatically raises prosperity for all
- 3 September 2014
Secular stagnation and the big state
You might not have heard of "secular stagnation", but if you live in America, Britain or continental Europe you'd better get used to hearing about it unless we effect radical reform to the big state
- 19 August 2014
The No-Comparison Comparison of Reagan v Obama
There are good reasons why Americans rate Ronald Reagan as the best post-War president and Barack Obama the worst. One is that Obama's big government polices have entrenched poverty; Reagan's market approach brought prosperity. Lessons?
- 12 August 2014
Libertarianism and human decency
Libertarianism doesn't mean life is a free for all. Values matter as much to libertarians as anyone else. But libertarianism does mean that you don't get dictated to by the state. And the problem with that is?
- 5 August 2014
Destruction of financial privacy heralds big government
There’s no way we should have a global regime of automatic information exchange simply because a handful of high-tax nations want to remake global tax policy so they can prop up their decrepit welfare states
- 30 July 2014
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