Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
Joe Biden’s climate bill is gaslighting the nation
The green-tinged “Inflation Reduction Act” won’t cut prices or carbon emissions. Read my Spiked article in full here.
Joe Biden has betrayed blue-collar America
His policies have fuelled inflation and pummelled working-class people. Read my Spiked article in full here.
Woke capitalism is a menace to democracy
Big businesses are aggressively interfering in politics – and liberals are egging them on. Read my Spiked article in full here.
Pikettymania: Thou shalt not doubt St Thomas
Why does any criticism of Thomas Piketty really rattle liberal observers? Read my spiked article in full here.
Pricking the Piketty bubble
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a thoroughly uninspiring, data-heavy dirge. Read my review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty, in the spiked review of books, here.
Oklahoma: a swirling storm of anti-human prejudice
As people in Oklahoma heroically dealt with their tornado disaster, observers were busy pinning the blame for it on greedy mankind. Read my spiked article in full here.
Mead on the pessimism of today’s liberal elites
For the past year or so, Walter Russell Mead has written extensively on The American Interest website about the steady disintegration of the post-New Deal social order, which he calls the “blue social model”. Mead, a professor at Bard College and a prolific blogger, argues that we cling to old notions, even as our economy and society have […]
A bad cliffhanger
The US “fiscal cliff” talks were depicted as a tense dash to save America, but in truth all the big questions were left out. Read my spiked article in full here.
A bad cliffhanger
Congress and the President went past its own deadline of midnight on December 31st, but a day later reached a deal on the so-called “fiscal cliff”. With its vote late on Tuesday night, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in approving legislation that will avoid tax increases for most Americans and scheduled cuts in […]
New York City’s economy: more than Wall Street?
That’s the title of a chapter I wrote for a new book, London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? The book is edited by three University of East London academics – Gavin Poynter, Iain Macrury and Andrew Calcutt – and is published by Ashgate. One of the aspects I was surprised to learn in researching the topic […]