{"id":4996,"date":"2009-10-03T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T11:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2009-10-03T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T11:08:29","slug":"samuel-brittan-a-cool-look-at-the-current-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/03\/samuel-brittan-a-cool-look-at-the-current-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Brittan &#8211; A cool look at the current deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/4679c2be-aed0-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1\">FT.com \/ Columnists \/ Samuel Brittan - A cool look at the current deficit hysteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First rate commentary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The big error of the current discussion is to confuse the budget balances of individuals and companies with the government budget balance, which needs to be in deficit so long as attempted savings exceed perceived investment opportunities. Gordon Brown more or less understands this, and I wish he would use his talents to explain such fundamentals instead of stirring up an outdated <a class=\"bodystrong\" title=\"Financial Times - Labour rediscovers the joys of class war\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/94fb7b70-ae9a-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">class war<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So true.<\/p>\n<p>But Osborne is deaf to reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT.com \/ Columnists \/ Samuel Brittan &#8211; A cool look at the current deficit hysteria. First rate commentary: The big error of the current discussion<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/10\/03\/samuel-brittan-a-cool-look-at-the-current-deficit\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}