Donald Trump is here to stay – let’s make the most of it - CapX
1 day ago · The President-elect is a dealmaker through and through. He can be bargained with and, if he feels that America is getting a ‘good deal’, he can be surprisingly flexible and pragmatic. Fortunately, Trump’s protectionist instincts tend to be concentrated on eye-catching goods – cars, steel, military hardware – rather than on services or ...
Business is paying the price for trusting Labour - CapX
1 day ago · Conservatives found the –understandable and pragmatic – degree to which business embraced the Labour Party woundingly frustrating, but they had ruined their own reputation. Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet includes people with genuine business experience and credibility. The shadow chancellor Mel Stride founded and grew a successful ...
The world’s biggest polluters are killing us – they should pay for it
1 day ago · It is high time we expand the list of countries that have to pay climate finance to include the world’s biggest polluters, such as China, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The COP climate conferences have happened every year since they were established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. They set the framework for how we globally deal with climate ...
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Chasing the grey vote is a dead end for the Tories - CapX
4 days ago · You cannot win an election with only the grey vote, useful though it may be. As such, the percentage of the over-60s that vote for the party may be a classic example of Goodhart’s Law. Named after the economist Charles Goodhart, the law simply states that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
The economic gamble at the heart of national conservatism
4 days ago · The great challenge for free-market conservatives, as the realignment continues, is whether they can, as some hope, combine the popularity of the NatCons with the economic success and commitment to individual freedom of classical liberalism. Steve Davies says no. Others are trying to ride the tiger. The question mark hanging over Trump’s ...
CapX America - For Popular Capitalism
Acton Institute - 1 Dec 2022. Bringing you the best writing on politics, economics, markets and ideas underpinned by a commitment to make the case for popular capitalism.
The unsung hero of economic freedom - CapX
Jan 18, 2024 · The world is falling behind on economic freedom. Even before the Covid lockdowns, citizens in most developed countries were subject to growing regulatory burdens, taller trade barriers, and higher taxes. Governments through the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 – not least in the UK – accelerated the process, and are now reluctant to reverse it despite its substantial costs. We cannot […]
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CapX Books of 2021
Dec 20, 2021 · John Ashmore. Much of my reading this year has been in aid of The CapX Podcast. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Woke, Inc was a fascinating dissection of the utterly shameless way that Wall St institutions have co-opted a social justice agenda to enhance their own power and avoid scrutiny, in an unholy marriage of convenience with left-wing pressure groups.. A couple of books on economics also stood out ...