Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "Growth has disappeared – so what is Rachel Reeves going to do now ?" video.

  1. Roosevelt's new deal
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  2. Old people are expensive. They've been talking about our aging population for decades, but didn't do anything to prepare for it...
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  3. If the megarich stop buying all the houses, then that's a good thing 🙂
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  4. ​ @billB101 as opposed to the world beating success of Johnson and Truss?
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  5. Sure, because Argentina is doing so well under Milei...
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  6. @Exanto777  all good, as long as modernisation makes things better, rather than like Thames Water!
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  7. @sebastianbywater2445  the rentiers don't allocate efficiently, they allocate selfishly and in a short-termist way That's why everything is broken now
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  8.  @sebastianbywater2445  I question your assertion that governments are always inefficient, but even going along with your argument, I'd rather an inefficient allocation of resources, when the alternative is no resources at all!
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  9. @billB101  by implication, yes - because Johnson and Truss is what we got, when we could have had Corbyn instead. How confident are you that Corbyn would have been worse than those two?
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  10. If people keep retiring, and fewer people are born, immigration is the inevitable way to keep the country working as people retire
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