#020 - Steve Baker - Why Government is Failing You
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Steve Baker is a former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Wycombe, serving from 2010 until 2024.
In this episode, we discuss pressing economic and political issues such as the challenges of government debt, inflation, and the often overlooked consequences of central bank policies. With a focus on the impact of taxation and government spending on individual freedoms and economic productivity. We also discuss the structural inefficiencies in politics and examine the growing disconnect between politicians and economic realities.
Reflecting on his experience in Parliament, Steve emphasises the need for public education on economic fundamentals, a paradigm shift in policy-making, and personal financial resilience, exploring how Bitcoin and free-market principles could offer solutions to a system he believes is deeply flawed.
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| 0:00.0 | So I see one of two things happening. Either we'll end up with a massive inflation. In the end, |
| 0:05.7 | to keep the bond market going, you have to keep debasing the currency. Or we'll end up with a sudden |
| 0:12.3 | deflation of a massive bond market bubble and a panic. Now, what happens in that panic will really |
| 0:18.2 | matter? Bear in mind that politicians in that panic |
| 0:20.8 | can't just suddenly slash health and pension spending. What will probably happen in that panic, |
| 0:25.7 | bond market bubble, disaster, they probably end up going for QE of some form. And then you get |
| 0:30.1 | another inflation. How much longer really do we think we can keep distorting the real economy? |
| 0:35.5 | Because eventually the real economy, the real world, |
| 0:38.9 | people's actual choices, and the availability of real physical resources, eventually is going |
| 0:45.3 | to catch up with what amounts to accounting games. |
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| 1:37.1 | Steve, good to see you. |
| 1:38.9 | Well, it's good to be here, Peter. Thanks very much. |
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