Showing posts with label Margaret Thatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margaret Thatcher. Show all posts
March 08, 2021

Has Thatcherism run its course, or has Thatcherism been run off its course?

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Sir, Martin Wolf asks “once we accept that Thatcherism has run its course, what follows?” “ Sunak takes an axe to Thatcher’s low-tax ideolog...
December 25, 2018

The crisis of modern liberalism is caused more by authoritarian besserwisser distortions than by market forces.

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Sir, Wolfgang Münchau writes: Margaret Thatcher’s successful brand of entrepreneurial capitalism in the UK in the 1980s… Through the sale o...
April 12, 2013

Banks should make their profits by being real banks not simply by leveraging what is “absolutely safe”

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Sir, Martin Wolf ends his “ Britain’s economy should not go back to the future ” April 12, writing “The country needs institutions, public ...
April 10, 2013

Margaret Thatcher, if explained the capital requirements for banks based on perceived risk would ask “Are you nuts? Accept defeat?

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Sir, I have read many obituaries of Margaret Thatcher that attributes to her much of the bank de-regulations they blame for the current cri...
December 04, 2009

There is still a lot learning to do about the real meaning of “getting out of the way of markets”

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Sir Martin Wolf writes “Gone, too, must be the assumption that governments should merely get out of the way of markets”, “A weakened Britain...