I have written about inflation before but I think it is more important than ever to revisit the topic as consumer and retail prices continue to rise at rates not seen since the 1970s, major workers’ strikes continue to afflict and disrupt the U.K. economy. It was economist Milton Friedman who once said that inflation is always a monetary phenomenon so with that in mind… Read More »Government inflation
As the economic situation deteriorates, we are seeing governments around the world start to change the economic data and even the way they define economic recessions. Usually we are told that governments like the one in the U.K. and the U.S. can be trusted with the data and that one should not believe anything governments from China and other emerging market countries publish in term… Read More »Fiddling Economic Data
We have been warning about the consequences of inflation for quite a few years, while some like economist Roger Bootle, on the other hand, even wrote a book entitled The Death of Inflation. How could an economist have been so wrong and we right? We hope to clarify this in this article. We have been warning the readers of this publication too, as about a… Read More »Westminster Street
In pre-pandemic times I and two of my friends sat around a Wetherspoons table and somehow – like it always does – politics came up. One of them purposed that there were too many old people in politics and there should be a cut-off point in terms of age. The table soon dissolved into an argument of how you would be marginalising an age group,… Read More »Young People In Politics
