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How the West builds wealth for everyone - CapX
1 day ago · Wealth is now more evenly distributed than in most past eras. Dynamic and value-creating growth lifts everyone, at the top and bottom. Wealth ownership in the West has reached unprecedented levels. Today, there are more billionaires than ever, and housing and stock prices have climbed to record highs. Meanwhile, the taxation of labor and ...
American democracy is hanging in the balance - CapX
1 day ago · This is the most important democratic exercise in the most important year for democracy itself, with an estimated 40% of earth’s entire population eligible to cast a ballot in some sort of plebiscite in 2024. Awful threats have been made, ugly slurs have been said and many fear we are facing a 1930s moment which eventually brought the world ...
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A national balance sheet can keep politicians honest - CapX
Oct 29, 2024 · Reporting them accurately would wipe out the Chancellor’s net balance sheet surplus, and leave her with a net deficit of at least 160% of GDP. Rather than creating fiscal headroom to justify extra Government borrowing and debt, an honest national balance sheet would reveal the exact opposite. If the welfare state were a pensions or insurance ...
CapX books of the year - CapX
Dec 11, 2020 · Kit Wilson. Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life is an astounding overview of, well, pretty much every aspect of Western culture of the last 500 years – religious, political, scientific, artistic and social history all woven together. For fiction, it’s been Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard.
How to build an effective Shadow Cabinet - CapX
4 days ago · It set the tone for the years to come. Bringing the leadership candidates together will also help the leader create a Shadow Cabinet that represents the spectrum of Conservative opinion. Here, the new leader can learn from one of Thatcher’s early mistakes. When asked by the press in 1975 about a possible purge of the Heathites, Thatcher hit ...
The CapX Podcast: The heroes, villains, highs and lows of 2021
Dec 21, 2021 · From the Washington riots to European Championship football fever, the Taliban sweeping through Afghanistan and the brutal murder of MP David Amess, it’s been mostly a year to forget – and that’s before we begin to talk about the concertina-ing nightmare of Covid false dawns. Here on the CapX Podcast, however, we ended 2021 in […]
China Archives - CapX
Jan 12, 2024 · Darren Spinck - 25 Oct 2024. AMERICA BREXIT CORONAVIRUS CULTURE. ECONOMICS PODCAST POLITICS POLICY. TECH BUSINESS WORLD IDEAS. The CapX Podcast: Boats and votes. Alys Denby - 12 Jan 2024.
Policy Archives - CapX
Oct 11, 2024 · A national balance sheet can keep politicians honest. John Penrose - 29 Oct 2024