Author: CreativeDeduction

Venezuela’s misery in one statistic

Norway is officially the worlds happiest country according to the World Happiness Report 2017, released last week. The Norwegians replace fellow Nordics the [...]

Is the left antisemitic?

Jeremy Corbyn has had a rough couple of weeks. After the Salisbury poisoning he failed to condemn Russia, the following week he was forced to fire Owen Smith [...]

Free speech: an absolute

It should be clear to most that free speech is an absolute: you either have it or you do not – there is no grey zone. Free speech is not the freedom to say [...]

A libertarian’s approach to the death penalty

The death penalty has been abolished in all but one western country: The United States still practices it (in 31 of the 50 states), and since the Supreme Court [...]

Hat-gate and Corbyn’s unsavoury sympathies

Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the poisoning of a Russian former double agent on British soil has once again put the spotlight on the Labour leader’s [...]

South Africa’s radical land reforms – and  lessons for the British electorate

On 15th February Cyril Ramaphosa became the 5th President of South Africa since the fall of Apartheid in 1994. His ascent to the top job was a fait accompli [...]

Is Trump right? Do tax cuts increase pay?

In the immediate aftermath of the passing of the Trump tax reform, the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’, in December 2017, headlines told of companies bestowing pay [...]

Does the trade deficit matter?

With the threat of trade war in the air, the trade balance is once again getting a lot of attention. US president Donald Trump wants trade barriers to [...]

Women’s pay: You can’t close a gap that doesn’t exist

This year new legislation comes into effect, which requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations showing the gap in pay [...]

What happens to the money when taxes are cut?

Modern economic debate is dominated by demand side economics. The tenets of Keynesian economic theory have so pervaded the spheres of politics and public [...]