GROWTH? NOT IN THIS BUDGET – an appraisal of the March 2021 budget
Economic Perspectives – 96 [EMILE WOOLF -7th March 2021] GROWTH? NOT IN THIS BUDGET We have just endured yet another March Budget in which the Chancellor sets out his strategy for...
View ArticleWhat happens when government stops intervening!
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 97 WHEN GOVERNMENT STOPS INTERVENING My recent essays have focused on the boost to economic growth that occurs quite naturally when obstacles are removed. I cited the positive...
View ArticleGOVERNMENT’S WAYWARD SPENDING – WITH OUR MONEY!
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 99 APRIL 2021 GOVERNMENT’S WAYWARD SPENDING – IT’S OUR MONEY! Expenditure by “Big-government” is not readily susceptible to economic calculation. Therefore it’s impossible...
View ArticleDesigning Tax Policy – though it should be obvious!
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 100 _____________________________________ EMILE WOOLF, MAY 2021 A well-designed tax policy would extract from citizens’ wealth what’s needed by the government to protect their...
View ArticlePost-Pandemic Insanity
Economic Perspectives 101 [Emile Woolf – June 2021] It is beyond dispute that Covid’s ravages are on the wane, yet resistance to freedom appears to be far more resilient than any virus. Over two short...
View ArticlePlain Truth needs repetition
PLAIN TRUTH NEEDS REPETITION ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 102 [July 2021] “The Government has a duty to the next generation to build more homes” – reads a recent headline, quoting the Housing Minister,...
View ArticleTIME TO REVISIT ESSENTIAL ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 103 The great debate now obsessing Treasury bosses and central bankers is whether all those trillions they continue to print so obsessively are at last producing a perceptible...
View ArticleThese clowns are not “Conservatives”!
“Conservative” government?……if only! [ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 104] The Conservative government has strayed so far from the principles on which it was elected that it is scarcely recognisable as...
View ArticleEP – 106 When suppliers prefer their goods to our pounds
WHEN SUPPLIERS PREFER THEIR GOODS TO OUR POUNDS [ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 106 – OCTOBER 2021] Following his interview with Vladimir Lenin on the subject of inflation in 1919, John Maynard Keynes quoted...
View ArticleEP-105: Conventional wisdom is never the truth
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 105 Conventional wisdom maybe – but it’s never the truth Whether it’s the belief that commitment to more infrastructure spending by the state will create more jobs; or that...
View ArticlePUBLIC WASTE & PRIVATE THRIFT – EP-109
EMILE WOOLF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 109 [November 2021] Veteran observers of economic folly have the advantage of experience. They are already familiar with the failed policies being enacted, yet...
View ArticleWhy governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them –...
Economic Perspectives 111 – 1 January 2022– Emile Woolf Why governments practise currency debasement – and how to cure them [With my gratitude to Patrick Barron for his inspiration and insights I have...
View ArticleEconomic Perspectives 112 – Part 1 – LIVING ON DEBT
Economic Perspectives 112 – February 2022 – Emile Woolf ——————————————– Part 1 – Idiocy repeated Any catalogue of economic legends would of...
View ArticlePart 2 – PUBLIC & PRIVATE SECTORS: KEY ECONOMIC DISTINCTIONS
Economic Perspectives – 112 (Part 2) [EMILE WOOLF, FEBRUARY 2022] In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to...
View ArticleREALITY BEGINS TO DAWN
Reality begins to dawn Shortly before the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, BBC2’s “Newsnight” featured Kirsty Wark interviewing two economic experts, one Conservative, one Labour. She asked each of...
View ArticleFAULT-LINES IN THINKING ARE EXPOSED
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 113 [MARCH 2022] UKRAINE CRISIS – AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS Last month I wrote about the massive waste implicit in government-sponsored bureaucracy – at local and central...
View ArticleWaste not, want not – EP116
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 116: “Waste not, want not” This proverb spells out the link between waste and impoverishment. Economic Perspectives 112 highlighted the inevitability of massive waste of public...
View ArticleThe level of economic understanding has never been lower
ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES – 118 [JULY 2022] The level of economic understanding has never been lower My last essay focused on the sheer insanity of current pseudo-Conservative policies. I sent it out...
View ArticleTHE NEW PRIME MINISTER – THE ACID TEST
THE NEW PRIME MINISTER – THE ACID TEST EMILE WOOLF – JULY 2022 – EP-119 What a spectacle! Two former colleagues, erstwhile members of Boris Johnson’s discredited cabinet, now vying with each other...
View ArticleWarren buffet famously quipped: “When the tide goes out you can see who has...
Economic Perspectives – 120 EMILE WOOLF – AUGUST 2022 Warren buffet famously quipped: “When the tide goes out you can see who has been bathing naked!” Now we know! Both candidates for the premiership...
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