Summary This briefing looks at the impact of the pandemic on the UK’s public finances and assesses the scale of … Continue reading “A briefing on the public finances: How deep a hole are we in?”

Jeremy Corbyn’s BBC interview with Andrew Neil last week caught the headlines for its discussion of the Labour leader’s views … Continue reading “What Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t know about government debt”

Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, former Secretary of State for Defence, spoke to ieaTV in the aftermath of his … Continue reading “Interview with Liam Fox MP”

This video explain the six crucial economic issues that the government, however it is made up, will have to face … Continue reading “Six Questions the next Government must answer”

The question of whether the BBC is institutionally biased to the left and/or anti-capitalism (not necessarily quite the same) might … Continue reading “Does the BBC have an anti-capitalist bias? A critique of “Promises, Promises: A History of Debt””

The IEA was honoured to welcome Cato Institute Senior Fellow and well-known American libertarian scholar Dan Mitchell to London to … Continue reading “An interview with Dan Mitchell”

An introduction to the debt mountain facing young people today. Unfortunately, the real debt is no fairy tale, and there … Continue reading “Danny and the Debt Mountain”

The IEA were honoured to host Art Laffer, author of the Laffer Curve, for a lunchtime discussion of taxes in … Continue reading “Art Laffer: Are International Taxes at a Tipping Point?”

Scott Sumner produced an excellent blog post on Piketty recently. It begins by quoting Piketty: ‘In my view, there is … Continue reading “Why is Piketty so certain about things which are probably completely wrong?”