{"id":86255,"date":"2025-09-29T07:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=86255"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:49:11","slug":"another-new-series-my-economic-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/29\/another-new-series-my-economic-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Another new series: my economic ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of email traffic I am receiving regarding the blog and YouTube is increasing at present.<\/p>\n<p>Some are invitations: I am doing a fair number of events this autumn. They don't always fit easily with regular blog and video production, but I will try to do as many as I can. So you can ask.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are also sending me materials for comment. I regret that in most such cases, I do not have the time to do so: life is already hectic. So, if you really want to highlight material, please add a link in a comment, but do also explain what the material is. I have very little time to make a decision on suitability for posting. Please do your best to assist me in that case.<\/p>\n<p>The third type of post is to ask me for my opinion on an issue, about which I have often written previously. I obviously do not expect people to have read all 24,060 posts I have written. But I do think it is reasonable to think you can ask Google what I think about an issue, or an AI search engine, before mailing me. As a result, I sometimes do not respond to these requests.<\/p>\n<p>However, I also note that some people are genuinely looking for summaries of my thoughts on a subject, and that is something I have never really provided. So, I have been following my own advice and have spent a considerable amount of time developing a ChatGPT prompt to help me extract a summary of my thinking on a subject from my body of work. As usual, the final offering from ChatGPT (even after eleven iterations of the prompt) still required some editing; however, after making those edits, I think the resulting summaries might be helpful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/29\/fiscal-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The first was published this morning<\/a>, on fiscal rules.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, do you agree? Might summaries of this sort be useful? Might you answer this poll? And might you also suggest topics in the comments? I can think of a whole pile of issues, but I might as well do what people want if this is, in general, thought to be worthwhile.<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-213\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_213\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/Blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_213_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"ab9812dd58\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Might summaries of my thinking on key subjects be useful?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-213-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-984\" name=\"poll_213\" value=\"984\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-984\">Yes<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-985\" name=\"poll_213\" value=\"985\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-985\">No<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-986\" name=\"poll_213\" value=\"986\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-986\">Try it, and let's see<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-987\" name=\"poll_213\" value=\"987\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-987\">Only if you have time<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(213);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(213); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-213-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of email traffic I am receiving regarding the blog and YouTube is increasing at present. Some are invitations: I am doing a fair<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/29\/another-new-series-my-economic-ideas\/\"><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":[229,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-ideas","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86255","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=86255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86273,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86255\/revisions\/86273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}