If you look at any of the great economic successes over the past two hundred years, you will usually find this combination. Likewise, most of the great failures have the converse: high (or rising) taxes, and unstable money.
August 14th, 2009 | Nathan Lewis | 16 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "economic policy"
Economic Crisis Discussions in the House of Lords
We have recently had an innovation in the House of Lords, and a good one. The Lady Speaker invited a group of peers with experience or knowledge of economic policy, to discuss the present economic crisis. There were four speakers, one of whom was Nigel Lawson, an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer from the Thatcher years. There was also a group of peers and a group of journalists who joined in the discussion. The House of Lords, like any other House of Parliament…
October 31st, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 1 comment | Continued