Hare-brained schemes and profligate spending go together like, well, 'progressive' attitudes and the handy knack of turning a blind-eye to failure
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When Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman talk economics, what we hear are two men lost in the euphoric fantasies of the demand-side creed. Pity them, scorn them, ignore them -- but never, ever mistake their reveries for reality
Fly cramped, squeezed and cattle-class to the other side of the world and you'll soon understand what toothpaste feels like in its tube. Or you can make relaxation your companion and ride a freighter. Our intrepid voyager reports....
How to fund the needs of France's pensioners? Why, the solution is simplicity itself! Give all female workers pay raises so they can pay more taxes and make that nasty deficit go away.
Keynesians have dominated economic policy for so long even conservatives now couch their thoughts against a background noise of pumps being primed and demand stimulated. It is past time to break that habit
That the Greens’ fanciful economic prescriptions are taken seriously by many voters and sections of the commentariat testifies to a lack of reflection on how economies really work. A huge container ship makes a splendid classroom
The UK countryside is being blighted by wind farms, but opposition is growing and the perceived urgency to lower the planet's temperature receding. How chilly has it been? Ask a barn owl
Strong winds have inspired warmists to further hysterics, in part inspiring an assault on power companies' 'obscene' profits. Also blown away: any grasp of true competition and free speech
Fact and reality are cruel things, but true believers can ignore them readily enough when wrapped in the comfort of favourite doomsday visions
There was never a moment's doubt that, after much posturing and fury, a Republican backdown would see the US meet its debt obligations. They don't call it the Stupid Party for nothing
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