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04/08/2026
🇦🇷 "Most of Milei's reforms are reversible at a low political cost because, in Argentina, institutional restrictions are usually de jure, not de facto."
Nicolás Cachanosky warns that without true institutional safeguards, Argentina's libertarian reforms depend entirely on maintaining political power.
https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/the-fragility-of-mileis-reforms-in
📉 "The state is going to go bust."
Dr. Christopher Snowdon on the basic economics that Mamdani's grocery stores can't escape.👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FeAuh6-_wk
🏪 "It's a fairly useless symbolic gimmick."
Dr. Kristian Niemietz on why New York's five state-owned grocery stores aren't really about groceries at all.👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FeAuh6-_wk
🫒 "You don't think of rising prices as something that bothers you too much."
Until you do. Dr. Kristian Niemietz on inflation and bad policy.👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FeAuh6-_wk
03/08/2026
🌍 "I am becoming morosely convinced that a major global conflict is gathering head and that we will be caught as much off-guard as our ancestors were at the start of the 20th century."
Lord Hannan on why peace is no guarantee of lasting peace.
https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/is-war-coming
03/08/2026
🏛️ "Britain's Economic Freedom score has fallen from around 8.6 out of 10 to 7.9 today."
Dr. Kristian Niemietz shows the idea that Britain remains a liberal outlier in statist Europe is wrong—we've moved significantly away from Thatcherism.
https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/why-i-welcome-andy-burnhams-anti
🏠 "If you have a rationing system for toasters and you cap the production of toasters, you turn them into a luxury good."
Kristian Niemietz uses the toaster analogy to explain how Britain's housing shortage has created an affordability crisis despite the rhetoric of "social housing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4r6AnB-Qw
31/07/2026
🏚️ "In the British context, stagnation is a choice."
Kristian Niemietz's new briefing on why Britain has everything it takes to grow, and simply doesn't allow it to happen. 👇
https://iea.org.uk/publications/the-great-stagnation-briefing-2-buildings-in-defence-of-stupid-growth/
30/07/2026
📢 "Public appetite for official scrutiny is growing, and taxpayers need robust leadership, not a passive referee."
Rhys Hurley, Investigations Lead at the Taxpayers Union, on the vacant Information Commissioner role and Britain's transparency crunch. 👇
https://economicaffairs.co.uk/p/the-information-commissioner-has
30/07/2026
🚨 New interview out now! 🚨
🧱 Why can't Britain build anything, anywhere?
📉 Land use regulation: an 8/10 barrier to growth?
🏙️ Could Cambridge have been a city of a million?
Daniel Freeman speaks with Dr Kristian Niemietz on Britain's Great Stagnation. 👇
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