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Thatcherism is a form of British conservative ideology named after Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher that relates to not just her political platform and particular policies but also her personal character and style of management while in office.
Ronald Reagan's economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics" by opponents, included large tax cuts and were characterized as trickle-down economics.In this picture, he is outlining his plan for the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 from the Oval Office in a televised address, July 1981.
The Reagan Administration had some of the highest illegal union firings in recorded history. In 1981, to protect domestic auto sales the Reagan administration signed an agreement with Japan that it would not import more than 1.67 million cars into the United States, which would be one in four cars sold in America. [63]
Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981.. Reaganomics (/ r eɪ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ k s / ⓘ; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), [1] or Reaganism, were the neoliberal [2] [3] [4] economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
Wets and dries are British political terms that refer to opposing factions within the Conservative Party.The terms originated in the 1980s during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher: those who opposed some of Thatcher's more hard-line policies were often referred to by their opponents as "wets"; in response, supporters of Thatcher were referred to as "dries".
The term Rogernomics was created by analogy with Reaganomics to describe the economic policies followed by New Zealand Finance Minister Roger Douglas from his appointment in 1984. The policies included cutting agricultural subsidies and trade barriers, privatising public assets and the control of inflation through measures rooted in monetarism ...
As previously reported by GOBankingRates, Bidenomics has generally outperformed Reaganomics in terms of GDP growth and unemployment (so far), while Reaganomics holds the edge in terms of inflation ...
The reforms were also aimed, Thatcher claimed, at democratising the unions and returning power to the members. The most significant measures were to make secondary industrial action illegal, to force union leadership to first win a ballot of the union membership before calling a strike, and to abolish the closed shop. Further laws banned ...