>"First let’s get a critical definition out of the way. When I first heard the term “neoliberalism” it conjured up in my head a new age of bright-eyed, knowledgeable hippies with progressive agendas. I…"

Neoliberalism was famously espoused by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the mid 1980s and has been very popular with the wealthy ever since. It has been the driving force of our economy for the last four decades. This ideology has been a major contributor to the housing crash of 2008, the degradation of the environment and climate change, the intensification of wealth inequality and child poverty, the collapse of public health and education, the offshoring of wealth, the election of Donald Trump, and even the exaggerated effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on mortality and the economy.