Socialism By Any Other Name Would Stink Just As Badly
A fun result from some research by Ed Lazear:
One surprising finding from my study is that changing a country’s name to eliminate the terms...
Research We’d Really Like To See – Is Socialism Worse Than Slavery?
I would not wish either slavery or socialism upon another. Both are foul impositions, crushings of human liberty. By socialism here I do mean...
Huzzah! The UK Has A Trade Surplus!
You know all those folks who keep saying how terrible it is that the UK has a trade deficit? That we have to export...
Beware Biophysicists Doing Economics
This is a warning sign:
Isky Gordon is emeritus professor in the developmental imaging and biophysics section at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child...
French Productivity Is Indeed Higher Than British
It's one of those Willy Hutton things - French labour productivity is higher than UK, therefore Britain should do things more like France. Which...
If Only The Fool Understood Rentier Capitalism
We've another one of those Guardian blasts at the iniquities of capitalism. This time around it's about rents and rentier capitalism. An analysis that...
The Price Of A Life
Matthew Parris almost gets this right. He's talking about the price of a life, something we've got to take note of. Because, as we...
Well, OK, But…
From our Swindon Correspondent:
The only thing we all know is that a 66% drop in people working away from home will have a negative...
How The Coming Significant Inflation Will Work
We'd sorta hope for a financial market analyst to have better logic than this:
There is, however, something else that’s common to this group of...
The Leisure Sector – A Personal Perspective
From our Swindon Correspondent:
Without going into depth on the budget changes yesterday, is much of this going to actually work? A discount scheme for...