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💡 "Prices are in the hands of God. This is a thousand years before Adam Smith." @danieljhannan on why Muhammad — a merchant by trade — understood price caps better than most modern politicians do. 👇

💡 "Prices are in the hands of God. This is a thousand years before Adam Smith." @danieljhannan on why Muhammad — a merchant by trade — understood price caps better than most modern politicians do. 👇

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📉 "People used to draw a big contrast between youth unemployment in southern Europe and the United Kingdom. We had a flexible labour market and a booming hospitality sector. And now we're hitting double digits." Valentin Boboc warns Britain is becoming the thing we used to criticise about Spain.

📉 "People used to draw a big contrast between youth unemployment in southern Europe and the United Kingdom. We had a flexible labour market and a booming hospitality sector. And now we're hitting double digits." Valentin Boboc warns Britain is becoming the thing we used to criticise about Spain.

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64,803 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce

🌭 New offer! Donate £25 or more by the end of the month to get: - A signed copy of Christopher Snowdon's new book 'Inside the Sausage Factory' - 2 IEA publications - A limited edition "I fund the IEA" badge Learn more 👇️

🌭 New offer! Donate £25 or more by the end of the month to get: - A signed copy of Christopher Snowdon's new book 'Inside the Sausage Factory' - 2 IEA publications - A limited edition "I fund the IEA" badge Learn more 👇️

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⚖️ Roy Hattersley once said: "I would rather have 5% more equality than 10% more prosperity." @danieljhannan on the wisdom of the late former Labour deputy leader. 👇

⚖️ Roy Hattersley once said: "I would rather have 5% more equality than 10% more prosperity." @danieljhannan on the wisdom of the late former Labour deputy leader. 👇

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🇺🇸 "We would be 51st. We would be poorer than Mississippi. That's an astonishing statistic." Tom Harwood on GB News reacting to our new research on British attitudes to economic growth. 👇

🇺🇸 "We would be 51st. We would be poorer than Mississippi. That's an astonishing statistic." Tom Harwood on GB News reacting to our new research on British attitudes to economic growth. 👇

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🧵 "Private ownership. State control. It's not socialism. Nobody's seizing anything. But it's not capitalism either. Because the price mechanism is being systematically overridden." Christopher Snowdon on Britain's capitalist command economy. 👇

🧵 "Private ownership. State control. It's not socialism. Nobody's seizing anything. But it's not capitalism either. Because the price mechanism is being systematically overridden." Christopher Snowdon on Britain's capitalist command economy. 👇

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📈 The economist Joseph Schumpeter is best known for popularizing the term 'creative destruction' to describe the entrepreneurial process where new innovations arise and cause the old way of doing things to disappear. Find out more ⤵️

📈 The economist Joseph Schumpeter is best known for popularizing the term 'creative destruction' to describe the entrepreneurial process where new innovations arise and cause the old way of doing things to disappear. Find out more ⤵️

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📉 "In Manchester and in Glasgow, 20% of people on out of work benefits are of working age. This rises to 25% in Birmingham. These are calamities." Fraser Nelson at the IEA's 'Is Britain Broken?' event on the welfare crisis London isn't talking about.

📉 "In Manchester and in Glasgow, 20% of people on out of work benefits are of working age. This rises to 25% in Birmingham. These are calamities." Fraser Nelson at the IEA's 'Is Britain Broken?' event on the welfare crisis London isn't talking about.

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Is Another Winter Of Discontent Coming? ⚖️ "We're going to enter into a period of time, maybe akin to the 1970s, where there are huge numbers of strikes."

Is Another Winter Of Discontent Coming? ⚖️ "We're going to enter into a period of time, maybe akin to the 1970s, where there are huge numbers of strikes."

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154,501 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

📉 "Most Brits think we're as rich as the Americans. We're probably 40% poorer." The UK hasn't had a properly growing economy in 20 years. David Frost on Britain's blind spot.

📉 "Most Brits think we're as rich as the Americans. We're probably 40% poorer." The UK hasn't had a properly growing economy in 20 years. David Frost on Britain's blind spot.

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🚄 "If you could put in an Elizabeth line for the North, you could have a single market for 9 million people - the same kind of thing as London." Lord O'Neill's vision for a northern economic powerhouse. 👇

🚄 "If you could put in an Elizabeth line for the North, you could have a single market for 9 million people - the same kind of thing as London." Lord O'Neill's vision for a northern economic powerhouse. 👇

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🌐 "Until the 18th century, there were no circumstances where you could randomly insult people and not expect to suffer the consequences personally, either reputationally or indeed physically." Rory Sutherland on social media anonymity. 👇

🌐 "Until the 18th century, there were no circumstances where you could randomly insult people and not expect to suffer the consequences personally, either reputationally or indeed physically." Rory Sutherland on social media anonymity. 👇

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🇬🇧 Brits think we rank 7th among US states for income. We actually rank 51st. Dead last. Below Mississippi. "Shock, embarrassment and anger." Matthew Lesh 👇

🇬🇧 Brits think we rank 7th among US states for income. We actually rank 51st. Dead last. Below Mississippi. "Shock, embarrassment and anger." Matthew Lesh 👇

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🏠 "I would love it if Grand Designs ceased to exist as a programme because the process of building your own home was so easy that it made very bad television." Rory Sutherland on Britain's housing crisis. 👇

🏠 "I would love it if Grand Designs ceased to exist as a programme because the process of building your own home was so easy that it made very bad television." Rory Sutherland on Britain's housing crisis. 👇

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💥 "The big problem is the politicians - the players of the game." "We have fallen into a position where if there is any problem it is the state's job to fix it, regardless of the cost." @JulianHJessop tells MPs on the Treasury Select Committee some home truths.

💥 "The big problem is the politicians - the players of the game." "We have fallen into a position where if there is any problem it is the state's job to fix it, regardless of the cost." @JulianHJessop tells MPs on the Treasury Select Committee some home truths.

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🚢 "The response to public anger about people being illegally smuggled into the country is not to stop that. It's to tighten up even more on the legal immigration, which actually is a net benefit." Tom Clougherty on the Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 Show. 👇

🚢 "The response to public anger about people being illegally smuggled into the country is not to stop that. It's to tighten up even more on the legal immigration, which actually is a net benefit." Tom Clougherty on the Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 Show. 👇

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🧾 Emmanuel Maggiori : "MMT was born out of an accounting mistake — they thought whenever the government collects taxes, the money disappears. They literally destroy the money." Emmanuel Maggiori exposes the error at the heart of Modern Monetary Theory. 👇

🧾 Emmanuel Maggiori : "MMT was born out of an accounting mistake — they thought whenever the government collects taxes, the money disappears. They literally destroy the money." Emmanuel Maggiori exposes the error at the heart of Modern Monetary Theory. 👇

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🏥 Is the NHS a historical mistake? Our Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz explains what British healthcare could look like had it not been brought into state ownership👇

🏥 Is the NHS a historical mistake? Our Head of Political Economy Kristian Niemietz explains what British healthcare could look like had it not been brought into state ownership👇

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💷 "We seem to have invented the most expensive poverty in the world, and we keep making it worse." Fraser Nelson on Britain's welfare crisis. 👇

💷 "We seem to have invented the most expensive poverty in the world, and we keep making it worse." Fraser Nelson on Britain's welfare crisis. 👇

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🐑 "At a certain age, everyone is on the left — and there's nothing really to tell." Being left-wing isn't a choice. It's just the default. Kristian Niemietz

🐑 "At a certain age, everyone is on the left — and there's nothing really to tell." Being left-wing isn't a choice. It's just the default. Kristian Niemietz

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