By johnredwood on April 2, 2025 The US has done plenty of homework to prepare for “Liberation Day”. Their doomsday book of tariffs and trade frictions produces long lists of extra costs and charges

By johnredwood on March 8, 2025 The government is keen to put prices up. It has hiked rail fares by double inflation, and Council tax. They have allowed large double figure percentage rises in water

The Chancellor and growth By johnredwood on January 24, 2025 Today in my lecture at 11 am at All Souls College and on zoom I will set out a range of policies that could boost growth in the UK. I will

The US in itself is the largest and perhaps the oldest pyramid scheme in the world. "Elon Musk Sounds the Alarm: America’s Debt Death Spiral Elon Musk has warned that the United States is barreling

By johnredwood on December 19, 2024 Five months in, several months talking down the economy and a bad tax raising budget have done damage. Inflation is up from 2% to 2.6% on the CPI. Unemployment us

Anonymous Zoomer: How Britain's social contract undermines young people like me MATT GOODWIN DEC 18 Matt Goodwin’s Substack goes to 64,400 subscribers from 172 countries and thousands of paying

Civil service reform edges forward By johnredwood on December 13, 2024 I was pleased to see the government now recognises the productivity collapse in the public sector. They say they wish to reduce

By johnredwood on December 5, 2024 There are numerous ways to boost public sector productivity. Recruitment freeze, forcing managers to promote or transfer existing staff into the important roles and

Today let us begin with the second and third largest increases in spending in recent years, Bank of England losses and debt interest. There is no need to restate the detail of how the Bank’s losses

The U.K. car industry is badly damaged by the zero emissions mandate By johnredwood on November 20, 2024 The Conservatives recognised it was unrealistic to suppose we can ban new petrol and diesel