Drowning in debt

If a foreign power – or aliens – wanted to wreck our economy, why waste time and money on firepower? All they would have to do is cut off our access to funny-money credit. Auto sales would stop. House

With the election of a socialist to the position of mayor, New Yorkers are trying to escape one toxic fantasy by plunging headfirst into another. They jump from the caldarium – a muscled-up fantasy of

If time is money, money must be time. And time is life. So, the people who control the money must also control our time. Most people count their lives in time – in hours, weeks, months. Each one repre

As expected, the US government shutdown came to an end in the customary way: both parties agreed to keep spending other people’s money. But do our leaders know what they are doing? And how much of wha

Taxes are up – a lot: another £26bn a year by 2029, drawing millions more into higher tax bands. That’s almost as big as the £32bn raised in last autumn’s Budget, with its job-destroying increase on e

“I will have everyone work like a horse,” declared Sanae Takaichi shortly before taking over as Japanese prime minister in October. Takaichi’s vow to “work, work, work, work, work” has been selected a