Wednesday
With apologies to Bob Dylan... A welcome new addition to the blogopshere is David Smith, the economics editor for The Sunday Times. More and more well known journalists are seeing blogging as a useful adjunct to their work. Blogging is here to stay, ladies and gents.
David's latest blog article is entitled How high is the next peak in base rates?... and he started off with an article with somewhat broader appeal called George Bush's scorched-earth economics policy. The EconomicsUK Blog promises to be a regular stop for economists, policy wonks and politicos!
Welcome to the blogosphere, David!

Perry, good grief.
"He introduced a controversial tax cut, targeted at the better-off and costing at least $1,000 billion (independent economists suggested as much as $2,500 billion) over 10 years. This was an immediate change. The surpluses built up by a Democrat president were to be used for tax cuts by a Republican."
Since that catastrophic tax cut, the economy has started to rebound, and tax revenues are increasing (despite the "cost" of the initial cut).
The economic surpluses were not anything to do with Clinton -- in fact, by going after Microsoft, the Clinton Administration could arguably have set the scene for the inevitable dotcom meltdown.
And you'll forgive me if I regard with distaste anyone who thinks Paul Krugman is a "noted economist".
Krugman is a noted liar and self-serving liberal weasel, and a disgrace to economists everywhere.
An economic policy which favors low taxes is not "scorched earth"; it's a fundamental tenet of conservative government, and moreover, a policy which has a resounding record of success vis-a-vis its opposite, as espoused by failed neo-socialist governments everywhere.
Posted by Kim du Toit at November 12, 2003 07:42 PM
I said he was welcome, I didn't say I agreed with him.
Posted by Perry de Havilland at November 12, 2003 08:00 PM
I am most impressed with the quality of David's work, if not in total agreement. Let us hope that David does not suffer the same problems with the Sunday Times that Daniel Weintraub did with the Sacramento Bee.
Beautiful design work, btw, Perry. I trust we'll be seeing more of that from The Big Blog Company in the future.
Posted by Kevin L. Connors at November 12, 2003 11:49 PM
Heh. ECONOMICSUK looks a bit like Economic Suck. Hehe. Uh, yeah.
Posted by David Hall at November 13, 2003 12:21 AM
Perry
I strongly agree with Kim. I sent this economic(?) writer a long response. Quoting Krugman, WOW
Posted by Gary Bezowsky at November 13, 2003 12:47 AM









