Democracy: What is it? And can we have too much?
This week, Nic asks some intriguing questions about democracy and we both try our best to find some answers.
Andrew: https://twitter.com/no_coercion
Nic: https://twitter.com/MrNicElliott
This week, Nic asks some intriguing questions about democracy and we both try our best to find some answers.
This week Nic challenges Andrew to guess the context of political misquotes from the past twenty years.
This week we talk about Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev, the pioneer or long term business cycles or Kondratiev Waves. We also find out if virtue signalling socialists who want to pay more tax actually do, before discussing tax statistics in more detail.
Links:
Voluntary Government Donations – Original FOI Request
Voluntary Government Donations – Andrew’s FOI Request
Daily Telegraph – Households dependent on the state
This week we talk about burdensome regulation in the telecoms industry before discussing different ways of determining a person’s class, whether higher/further education is a good idea and the benefits of consumer choice.
This week we collate the amazing progress the world is actually making, before delving into why free speech is a good thing which leads us to discussing the future of traditional media.
This week we discuss Trump’s tactics with tariffs to obtain free trade, we ask why there are so few low tax conservative politicians and talk about the recent changes to the Department for Exiting the EU.
As mentioned in segment 3, here are the links promised:
Paper Money Collapse by Detlev Schlichter
Detlev blogs at the Cobden Center.
This week, we discuss the fallout, one week on, from the Chequers agreement, including cabinet resignations and the non-state visit from President Trump.
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