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Is Trickle Down Economics a Thing?
Trickle down economics is the idea that if you let rich people get richer, they spend loads of money and it helps everyone in the end. The high water mark of this previously was, as you say, adam an, the n the eighties. And then we finally got the government putting that figure on it to day as part of this announcement. But because there's so much other stuff that that spending of 60 billion pounds just became a little sort of footnote to what was happening to day. Now, andy can asko a philosophical question to end on. I'm already confused about this phrase, trickle down economics. So i thought i understood what it was, and i thought it
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