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Articles by John Phelan
John Phelan is a Contributing Editor for The Commentator and a Fellow at the Cobden Centre. He has also written for City AM and Conservative Home and he blogs at The Boy Phelan.
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22 May 2012, By John Phelan
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.
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15 May 2012, By John Phelan
The sack of Berlin
Cries for the ECB to provide liquidity or for debt mutualisation are cries for Germans to work till they’re 67 so Greek crimpers can retire at 50. Will Merkel allow her electorate to become the slaves of Europe?
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08 May 2012, By John Phelan
Austerity is under attack
If even moderate attempts to slow the increase in debt prove electorally unpalatable then western voters will be faced not with the bumpy landing of austerity but with the fatal crash of economic collapse
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01 May 2012, By John Phelan
Money demystified: Stopping Keynes's one man in a million
Central banks cannot create wealth but they can redistribute it. And the system confers a tremendous power upon those who exercise it. They are Keynes’ one man in a million
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23 April 2012, By John Phelan
Is France inadvertently voting for the euro's break up?
Italy and Spain are already pushing the euro to the limit. With France voting to join them, the odds on the euro’s break up just shortened
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17 April 2012, By John Phelan
If you are looking for useful insights into the behaviour of homo economicus, don’t look to the left
The coalition government has waded into an avoidable mess on tax because it has been led in search of a limit of what people will hand over to the state by people who don’t believe such a limit exists
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10 April 2012, By John Phelan
Escaping recession: as easy as ABCT
We must either allow zombie banks to collapse or keep putting off recovery with more monetary and fiscal stimulus. One option is wrong; one is right; there is no third
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03 April 2012, By John Phelan
Taxpayer funding for political parties? Why not pensions for life for armed robbers too?
Denis McShane has argued that there's a need "for democracy to pay for democracy". There is nothing of the sort
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27 March 2012, By John Phelan
Paul Ryan's 40 year detox: America can't rely on China
Amidst the hyperbole, the bigger picture of America's debt crisis is being missed. Funnily enough, it involves China quite a bit.
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20 March 2012, By John Phelan
Why Charlie Elphicke's priorities are wrong
It ought not to be the job of the Conservative party to define ‘fairness’ as “tax everybody, everywhere”. Leave defending that sort of nonsense to Labour and the Liberal Democrats
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