Comments on: The myth of the spending splurge

By: Cameronomics are irredemable | blogs.independent.co.uk

Cameronomics are irredemable | blogs.independent.co.uk — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:28:02 +0000

[...] Giles Wilkes thy blog shoulds’t be living at this hour! As the Freethinking Economist pointed out on numerous occasions, the primary cause of the expansion of the public sector’s share of GDP [...]

By: The Independent View: Will Lib Dem proposals to tackle tax avoidance help save the world?

Fri, 28 May 2010 12:41:38 +0000

[...] governments around the world face a fiscal squeeze (caused, as Giles Wilkes frequently points out, as much by a post-crisis fall in tax revenues as a rise in spending) rich countries have already [...]

By: Crazy spending, or our lifeline? « Freethinking Economist

Crazy spending, or our lifeline? « Freethinking Economist — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:20:02 +0000

[...] into the sovereign fiscal crises worldwide. You will notice that it agrees with endless repeated polemics I launch on my slightly smaller blog: what the report says is that there has been a fundamental [...]

By: Two contrasting endorsements « Freethinking Economist

Two contrasting endorsements « Freethinking Economist — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:25:33 +0000

[...] a ‘liberty destroying Leviathan’ that is now 50% of the economy. As I have argued all over this blog, this ratio is a misleading measure of how ‘government dominated’ we are. The [...]

By: Martin Wolf hits several nails on the head « Freethinking Economist

Martin Wolf hits several nails on the head « Freethinking Economist — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:49:38 +0000

[...] he adds his voice to those arguing against the myth of the spending splurge: the explanation for the sudden explosions in the [...]

By: A cute little village anecdote « Freethinking Economist

A cute little village anecdote « Freethinking Economist — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:17:21 +0000

[...] before I start on that I would like to query (once again) their repeated claim that the deficit exploded because of a burst of excess spending. You can see [...]

By: Three graphs, for your edification and amusement « Freethinking Economist

Three graphs, for your edification and amusement « Freethinking Economist — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:16:36 +0000

[...] the boom in government spending is what caused a collapse in private spending. I have written too much about this to bore you with my responses. My view is that revenues collapsed; in cash terms, it [...]

By: The Malcolm Turnbull precedent: two Tories give odd reasons for voting Cameron « Freethinking Economist

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:35:18 +0000

[...] obsessive chronicling of their fiscal errors is meant to show one variant of their atavism: that they always think we are [...]

By: freethinkingeconomist

freethinkingeconomist — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:14:02 +0000

Yeah, I may be a little out of date – going off what people were planning a few months ago.

Europe is also f***ed. but I think fiscal stance is definitely the determining factor, not monetary.

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:27:42 +0000

Not quite sooner than the rest Giles. Have a gander at Germany, whose economic growth slumped again last quarter, which (analysts say) is related to them turning off the stimulus pump.

With regard to our own stimulus, I think it’s clear there’s an element of politics involved. No one is arguing that the UK couldn’t spend more if it wanted to except when attached to hyperbolic rhetoric about the country being bankrupt. So the actions of the government are not merely being taken, I suspect, with an eye on the weakness of Britain’s position pre-stimulus.