The Martin Hutchinson Place
CDU chief Friedrich Merz’s economically suicidal net-zero constitutional change in the Bundestag and the recent spate of anti-capitalist legal judgements in Britain and the U.S. highlight the alarming rise in economic illiteracy not only in the legal profession, but among politicians, journalists and pundits in general. Big Government, regulation and above all the rise of […]
Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney flew to London last week for talks with Britain’s Kier Starmer, both of them upset about President Trump’s aggression, populism and protectionism. Starmer’s immediate instinct, to snuggle ever closer to the corrupt rotting carcass of the European Union will do Britain no good, nor will Carney’s instinct to create a […]
Those still supporting globalist free-trade high-immigration policies are accused of “Zombie Reaganism,” though that policy mix is more Zombie Bushism, derived from the gimcrack “Washington Consensus.” Now Zombie Reaganites, notably Dan McLaughlin of “National Review” have accused President Trump’s followers of “Zombie McKinleyism” – support of high tariffs and protectionism generally — and suggested they […]
The Atlanta Fed’s advance estimate of Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter has recently turned sharply negative, to caterwauling glee from the usual suspects in the media and the Blob. Their rapture is economically irrational; GDP was deliberately designed to include government spending, thus flattering orgies of waste such as the Biden administration. It […]
Germany’s voters last week produced a massive demand for greater freedom, with the nationalist AfD’s share of the vote more than doubling to 20.8%. The outgoing government parties all did badly, the SPD losing 9% of the vote, the Greens 3% and the free-market FDP damaged so badly by its participation in the socialist coalition […]