Both Indonesia And Nigeria Are Getting Their Mining Law Wrong
The big victim here is the Indonesian economy - the victim of an incorrect understanding of how mining and mineral processing works. The government...
Err, Yes, Suppose So Really, Petrol Prices Lagging Crude Oil
Petrol companies have doubled the amount of profit they make per litre of petrol by refusing to pass on to consumers the significant drop...
That Ozzie Attack On Google And Facebook Advertising Revenues
Australia is trying something that has been tried twice already - fiddling with the law so that he newspapers get more of the online...
How Can People Be This Stupid? At Harvard Even?
This Monday, two days before Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, oil futures went negative for the first time in history. Buyers were so eager to...
Some Actually Predicted That WTI Would Go Negative – We Did
WTI - and some other US blends - has just gone negative in price. That is, people will pay you to come pick up...
Dear Marc, It’s Not Building Stuff, It’s The System That Allows Us To Do...
Marc Andreessen tells us that we have a problem. Which, clearly, we do, in fact we've more than one. The thought that the best...
Amazingly The World Has A Solution To Excess Wine
As is typical of Latin Europe there's a refusal to learn the basics of economics:
The grapes are tended with loving care for months on...
Is There Actually Such A Thing As German Pop Music?
Clearly, there must be, as there claim to be practitioners of it.
The German comedian Jan Böhmermann once lampooned his country’s pop music scene by...
Evgeny Morozov Really Is Most Unperceptive, Isn’t He?
Woe is us, the neoliberals are taking over the world and whither the State? So far no different from any other piece of Morozov's....
Amazon’s French Closedown – The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good
So, we're in a problem here. We've a pandemic going on, of a disease that is transmitted by personal contact. We have therefore closed...