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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.
Starmer is signing Britain up for accelerated decline - CapX
1 day ago · The CCC’s latest advice was to increase the UK’s 2035 NDC interim target from 78% to 81%, in pre-emption of more ambitious targets for the seventh, 2038–2042 carbon budget, in line with the raised ambitions for decarbonisation in the new Labour Government’s manifesto. The CCC proposed this might be achieved by speeding up deployment of ...
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CapX brings you the best writing on politics, economics, technology and ideas. We’re here to make the case for popular capitalism – for markets, innovation, growth and competition. CapX argues for policies and ideas that will enhance freedom, choice and …
Business is paying the price for trusting Labour - CapX
3 days 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
3 days 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 ...
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 …
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 …
The CapX Podcast: In defence of the rich - CapX
May 5, 2023 · Here at CapX we love an unfashionable cause – and in a cost of living crisis, few demographics are less popular than those who seem to be struggling less. But we’re also fans of basic economic concepts, and with the tax burden the highest it’s been since the era of state socialism under Attlee – the Laffer curve inevitably comes to mind.
Changing the Climate of Opinion: 10 years of CapX - CapX
Jun 4, 2024 · The piece below is Alys Denby’s chapter from ‘Conservative Revolution: The Centre for Policy Studies at 50’, published on June 4. It can be purchased here. You can use the code CPSBOOK to get a discounted copy. ‘The climate of opinion… is shaped by the battle of ideas and by experience. If socialists, irrespective of […]