Owen Ashworth

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Asking the Executioner How to Save Yourself

02/07/2025 Power & Market Owen Ashworth

The UK economy has continued to flatline for the entire second half of 2024. Nothing seems to happen in the UK anymore. There seems to be an atmosphere of decline. House prices are becoming absurd...

Inheritance Tax Hikes Threaten Farmers’ Property Rights in the UK

12/26/2024 Mises Wire Owen Ashworth

London was flooded recently with hundreds of farmers, protesting the recent changes made by the Labour government to inheritance tax. Thousands of farmers feel that their generational culture is truly...

What “Capitalism” Really Means

10/30/2024 Mises Wire Owen Ashworth

Grace Blakeley is a self-described socialist economist and author in the UK, appearing on shows like Politics Live, JOE Politics, and Novara Media. Grace throws down the proverbial gauntlet to self...

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Inheritance Tax Hikes Threaten Farmers’ Property Rights in the UK

02/08/2025 Owen Ashworth

Britain‘s new Labour Government is doing what leftist governments always do: raising taxes on everyone, but pretending that only the wealthiest citizens will pay more. Middle-class British farmers are quickly finding out that the taxman is coming for them too.

What “Capitalism” Really Means

12/01/2024 Owen Ashworth

Capitalism is characterized by the private ownership of capital, coming from Lockean homesteading principles, and not from state coercion and force.

United in economic stagnation and false fears

08/07/2024 Owen Ashworth

In the wake of the Labor Party's huge win in Great Britain, one is reminded that Labor and Conservatives are far more united in their economic and policy viewpoints than they pretend to be.

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