Well, Actually, Fatima Should Retrain As Something Other Than A Ballet Dancer
Much opprobrium being heaped upon political heads about this ad telling a ballet dancer that perhaps she should retrain into cybersecurity. The problem here...
Always Ask Sowell’s Question – Compared To What?
That hotbed of logical and economic understanding, Salon, asks us to consider the idea of there being a labour shortage in the US at...
Amazingly, Inflation Changes Your Behaviour When You Know There’s Inflation Happening
It's possible to be annoyingly simple - simplistic - about this research. It might not deserve it but still.
Incentives change behaviour, prices are information...
Contrary To Much Speculation Money Markets – Interbank Markets – Are Important To Have
One of the sillier proposals made during the Crash - by, of course, the Senior Lecturer - was that we should do away with...
The Bit That Owen Jones Misses
Yes, obviously, coronavirus, collapse of capitalism etc.
Which brings us to our social crisis. This is a society in which a quarter of adults...
Why The Low Black Marriage Rate? The Men Are Unemployed Or In Prison
It's not fashionable to say this yet there is clearly something to this. The black marriage rate in the US is markedly lower than...
And Now For Today’s Guardian Stupidity
That The Guardian doesn't gasp matters economic is obvious and well known enough. But it's difficult to get across to the general public quite...
Matt Colvin And His Coronavirus Price Gouging
So, there was this guy, see, who thought he could make a fortune out of the coronavirus. Buy up hand sanitizer from rural stores...
Great Depression – Perhaps Not Banking Networks But Banking Pyramids That Cause Collapse Problems
As is well known - or should be - the United States had appalling problems with bank failures during the Great Depression. It also...
Oh Dear, When Physicists Do Economics
Another one of those lovely examples. When physicists decide to come and do economics. The argument here being that look, look, we can prove...