{"id":5445,"date":"2009-11-29T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2009-11-29T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T15:33:47","slug":"camerons-policy-on-growth-and-the-deficit-is-fundamentally-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/29\/camerons-policy-on-growth-and-the-deficit-is-fundamentally-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron&#8217;s policy on growth and the deficit is fundamentally flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/nov\/29\/david-cameron-economic-recovery-deficit\"> Cameron's policy on growth and the deficit is fundamentally flawed | \t\t\t\tBusiness | \t\t\t\tThe Observer <\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am tempted to resort to last year's fashionable word \"oxymoron\" to describe Cameron's position.<\/p>\n<p>The question is: is Cameron's position on growth and the deficit consistent, or is it fundamentally flawed?<\/p>\n<p>In my view, it is the latter. Cameron is right to want to \"go for growth\", but wrong to argue that this position is consistent with a bigger assault on the deficit than the present government is planning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Almost any sane economist would agree.<\/p>\n<p>But sane economists are in short supply. So a lot don't.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron&#8217;s policy on growth and the deficit is fundamentally flawed | Business | The Observer . I am tempted to resort to last year&#8217;s fashionable<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/11\/29\/camerons-policy-on-growth-and-the-deficit-is-fundamentally-flawed\/\"><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-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","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=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}