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The occasional thoughts of Nick Harkaway. Look, it's not like you can say you weren't warned... (This image by the amazing Nadav Kander)
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I find I’m keeping a list of Truss-speak.
So far we have “failed economic managerialism” which I’m pretty sure means regulation and tax.
Now I see we also have “Treasury orthodoxy”, which could mean an obsession with debt over investment or crisis support, but I suspect it blurs into a general dislike of the Treasury’s requirement that a government’s financial posture have some tenuous connection to reality.
New buzzwords
We're screwed: anyone who listens to Minford is, almost by definition, an idiot.