Don’t Let The Government Run Industry – The Chinese Experience
That China has relaxed the governmental grip upon industry in recent decades is true. That China has become very much richer in recent decades...
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...
A Surprising Result About Snap Benefits – Most Do Get Spent Upon Food
If you think about food stamps - Snap benefits - over in the US the idea that most of them get spent upon food...
It’s Still Equality Of Opportunity That Matters, Not Outcome
Quite why anyone should even dream to believe that inequality of income is intrinsically immoral is difficult to work out. But even if we...
Apparently The New Economics Foundation Employs Gibbering Idiots
We should all have a four day week, oh yes, we should. And, of course, in the fullness of time, we will, for that's...
What Do We Have To Do To Stop Government Bankrupting The Future?
Well, obviously enough, don't elect Jezza, don't elect socialists. But there's more to it than that of course. Excessive borrowing has often led to...
Just Watch The Exploding Logic Here About Child Poverty
There was a time when the Observer was a rather better paper than The Guardian. It, not coincidentally, was when the Observer was still...
Support For Mortgage Interest Should Have Been Abolished, Sure It Should
Calling in from over in the Daily Mirror we've that usual conservative complaint that whatever we've done in the past should still be done...
Solving Silicon Valley’s Housing Problem In One Fell Swoop – Build More Houses
The Guardian has one of those interminable pieces bemoaning one of the minor problems of the word. Rich people in Silicon Valley are having...
The 10 Largest Global Cities Over The Past 500 Years
An excellent little visualisation this.
Courtesy of my wonderful colleague @tomhannen, we now have a new version of the cities animation up on the @FinancialTimes,...