Jack Watt

Articles

08/12/2024 Mises Wire Jack Watt

In the popular book “The Trading Game,” British author Gary Stevenson recounts his journey as a trader at a major U.S. bank in London. He has made lofty claims about his trading career and used it as...

British Sound Money MP Replaced by Labor Party Apparatchik: A Sign of the Times

07/08/2024 Power & Market Jack Watt

Sound money advocate and Conservative Party MP for Wycombe Steve Baker lost his seat in the general election that took place on 4th July–curious timing for a sitting Prime Minister to have called an...

Is Migration a Tool of the Consumptive Class?

11/06/2023 Mises Wire Jack Watt

Migration is part of the wider concept of economic freedom. This makes it desirable if prosperity is the goal of policy. But more applicable to the current attitudes and values of Western leaders than...

Media

Tax the Rich? Not a Good Idea

08/29/2024 Jack Watt

Taxing "the rich" won't make life more affordable for ordinary people. The true cause of the affordability crisis is inflation caused by central banks.

Is Migration a Tool of the Consumptive Class?

11/25/2023 Jack Watt

An unfortunate consequence of increased wealth is the growth of the parasitic consumptive class of political and cultural elites. Labor migrations often follow in the wake of damage that elites do.

Bidenomics: A Boom That Awaits an Inevitable Bust

09/16/2023 Jack Watt

While unemployment currently is low and the rate of inflation has fallen somewhat, Bidenomics is setting off a boom that is unsustainable. We know what happens next.

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