What Niall Ferguson thinks about energy
Scottish-American historian; Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a columnist at The Free Press. Author of The Ascent of Money (2008), Civilization (2011) and Doom (2021). Writes the Time Machine newsletter on history and current affairs.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Niall Ferguson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe French (and British and Italian) fiscal crisis is at root due to generational imbalances in welfare and tax systems, exacerbated by reflexive Keynesian spending every time anything nasty happens (a financial crisis, a pandemic, a war, an energy shock).
↗Why Europe Is Burningniallferguson.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece