The Financial Times has reported that Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, which is the most influential conservative think-tank in the United States, is facing
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New glossary entry: the Full Funding Rule
Definition The Full Funding Rule is a self-imposed Treasury convention requiring the UK government to “fully fund” any fiscal deficit by issuing an equivalent amount
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Economic question: the Tony Judt question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Laffer’s curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
Arthur Laffer’s “curve” is one of the most destructive ideas in modern economics. Sketched on a napkin in the 1970s, it claimed that cutting tax
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Roosting
I mentioned earlier this afternoon that I was going out at dusk to see if there was any roosting activity going on amongst the birds
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Limiting horizons to expand them
East Anglian skies are amazing: That is looking towards Blakeney Point, where the seal colony is. I have not been to see them on this
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Money, and the stories that are told to engineer control and privilege
A reader here asked this question today: Hi. New reader, found my way here via a recent interest in degrowth economics. I’m hoping someone here
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Ne’er a truer word
I know some dream of a stairway to heaven. I’d rather have this: That’s the boardwalk on the way to the hides at Cley bird
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The unaffordability of Trump
Donald Trump’s Great Gatsby–style party at Mar-a-Lago reveals everything about modern America — excess at the top, hunger at the bottom, and the deliberate cruelty
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