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Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz

January 21, 2025

The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a solution to all of our economic woes. Who’s behind it?


This week, Kristian Niemietz, a director at the IEA and a long-time Novara Media hater, sits down with Aaron for a debate about trickle-down economics, why he’s a neoliberal, and who really funds his employer.


And who funds Novara Media? That’s easier to answer: you. Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support