Earlier this week, the Chancellor made his Spring Statement. We all know that the UK is facing serious economic challenges in the year ahead and we must recognise the tough…
Economy
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The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, revealed in his Budget plans to raise taxes a Treasury-led panic to pay off the Covid debt as soon as possible. This was then supported by…
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The annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank will be dominated by the economic consequences of the shock generated by Covid-19. Generally, these have tended to be an amplification…
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Yesterday, over 4,000 doctors and medical experts signed a letter expressing their “grave concerns” over the attitude and response to the Covid-19 pandemic from nations across the world. The primary…
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Argentina is falling into a spiral of economic and moral bankruptcy. The right to life, liberty, and private property, the values that made us a wealthy country in the late…
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Europe
Government handouts and intervention helped tackle coronavirus chaos but it is not a long term solution
Lithuania has thankfully avoided the worst of the Covid-19 crisis, in fact compared to many European nations it has, so far, been almost unscathed. At the time of writing, Lithuania…
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The Great Depression was, until the Covid-19 crisis, the biggest economic shock to damage the world in modern history. Output fell 5 per cent in the UK, 20 per cent…
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Argentina suffers from stagnant production, as well as a great recession. These problems have been exacerbated by the country’s recent default. And now, Argentinians must deal with one of the…
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The Coronavirus crisis has presented the world economy with a massive adverse exogenous shock that has required extraordinary measures. These so far have been about putting the economy to sleep…