Making unhealthy food more expensive won’t stop people eating it – it will just make them poorer.
The President’s $6trn splurge is overheating an already roaring recovery – and will have to be paid for somehow.
The idea was flawed and always going to fail – but it has exposed what the government really stands for.
At the start of this crisis there was an expectation among economic liberals that the Coronavirus pandemic could ignite interest in international comparisons between healthcare
Wealth taxes are a bad idea that never dies. Should the UK government introduce them, as a new report from the Wealth Tax Commission is
When the time comes that the nation can look beyond tomorrow and we consider hauling the economy back up the cliff over which it was
Spare a thought for the class of 2020. Robbed of the last few months of school, deprived of that overwhelming relief when the ink dries
In the time that is has taken the earth to orbit the Sun our Prime Minister has stormed to election victory, secured Brexit, divorced, presided
In June 2016 the MIT Media Lab launched a game called Moral Machine. Players were presented with a version of the trolley problem: a driverless
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