Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment New:New for sheer peculiar prescience

for sheer peculiar prescience

including backstory

There lived a young Smoo by the name of Bill

seen through childlike

Trauma is a fact of life

Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment New:New for sheer peculiar prescienceIn 1979, Margaret Thatchers new government was faced with rampant double digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists: a policy based on the doctrine of monetarism. Tim Lankester was the private secretary for economic affairs to Thatcher during the early years of her government. His insiders