Labour’s Energy Halfway House
Labour has romped to victory in the UK and they need to get cracking on all their election promises. One of those is the creation of Great British Energy. Keir Starmer points to the number of foreign ...
10 Jul 202438min
Paying for our old age
In the UK the proportion of the population aged over 65 has grown from 16 percent in 2000 to over 19% today. It’s a similar story throughout the western world as the population ages. That’s seen as an...
3 Jul 202439min
Greens Manifesto: An Opportunity Lost
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay recently launched the Greens Manifesto in the run up to the UK election. Phil and Steve discuss it on this week’s podcast and conclude the one thing that seems to have s...
26 Jun 202439min
The West’s vote on immigration
The UK election debate changed tune when Nigel Farage agreed to stand for Reform, promising to cut migration and rid the UK of all the problems these nasty foreigners are responsible for. Elsewhere th...
19 Jun 202441min
Two parties obsessed with government debt
Imagine if Keir Starmer, the UK Labour leader, had said, let’s not get too obsessed with government debt. If we go down that road we won‘t be able to provide the public services we need, our infrastru...
12 Jun 202436min
Rising margins, higher inflation, lower wages. No wonder you feel worse off.
There’s been a debate brewing post-pandemic about how much inflation has been elevated by companies increasing their margins. The evidence of that is the increased profits, not just in the tech sector...
5 Jun 202443min
Productivity – the election winner that Rishi Sunak failed on
The UK is heading to the polls on July 4th and the Conservative Party is heading for annihilation. Yet, when it comes to espousing sensible ideas from textbooks, Rishi Sunak had the making of a good P...
29 Mai 202442min
Trump's plan. Same old same old, only more so.
Steve is on hols this week, so Phil takes a look back at a couple of Debunking Economics podcasts from just before Donald Trump took office. In many ways he stuck to his promises. He tried to cut immi...
22 Mai 202429min
