All Posts Tagged With: "Gordon Brown"
Europe: Still a Laggard Economy
There have been increasing signs of optimism from European economy watchers. After some years in the doldrums, with slow growth and rising unemployment, things appear to be looking up: labor markets are more efficient; growth was good for 2006; and the euro is doing well against the dollar after years of weakness following its inception [...]
1Mar2007 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedNew Labour
As Britains New Labour governs for an unprecedented
third term in the United Kingdom, it is time to look back a little, at least as a way of modestly predicting the future. The obvious domestic question is: will capitalism and the market economy be
any safer in the next five years than they have been in the last eight? Or will the subtle and blatant departures from economic freedom that have occurred in the first two Labour terms accelerate and will the country be under old socialistic Labour in everything but name? Tony Blair has said he will stand down as prime minister at the end of the next Parliament, but has the damage already been done? Will the likely succession of Gordon Brown be that much different?
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