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Why DOGE Has Failed

28th May 2025 Patrick Barron 2215 Comments

After much ballyhoo and euphoria over Elon Musk’s DOGE findings, it now appears that the federal budget will not decrease one penny this fiscal year. What went wrong? As a long-time consultant in the banking [more…]

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We are running out of bread and circuses

20th March 2025 Rookwood 1872 Comments

It takes a lot to keep a population anaesthetised. Anaesthesia, as medical Puffins will attest, is a very tricky and demanding mistress. A dash too much potion here, or an insufficient soupçon of elixir there, [more…]

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There’s no mystique about growth? – But step-one is to restore sanity

25th March 2024 Emile Woolf 2371 Comments

Over the years, my essays have charted the government’s descent from an ignorance of economic principles, all the way to sheer insanity. And there can be no reprieve while the public mind festers in the [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; (The Shabbiness Of Public Service)

6th September 2022 Colin Cross 3244 Comments

Autumn is upon us, misty mornings, shorter days and cool breezes from the west herald its arrival. In our tiny corner of North West England, little changes. Sheep get moved from field to field, taking [more…]

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“Waste not, want not”

9th May 2022 Emile Woolf 3380 Comments

 This proverb spells out the link between waste and impoverishment. Economic Perspectives 112 highlighted the inevitability of massive waste of public money when government expenditure is not susceptible to economic calculation. ”Would I sanction this [more…]

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Economic consequences – always ask: Who benefits?

2nd November 2020 Emile Woolf 2642 Comments

Things don’t just “happen”. Everything in the passing parade of phenomena is the result of something that preceded it: this is the world of cause and effect. Those appointed to hold the levers of power [more…]

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