Increased US Oil Production Means Cheap Oil Ain’t So Good No More
This is one of those obvious little things - as the US increases oil production from those unconventional, fracked, fields then the impact of...
A Bit Of Economics That Gordon Brown Actually Understood
Yes, obviously, we all fall back in amazement as we contemplate the idea that Gordon Brown understood any part of economics. And yet he...
Sad Piffle From The Guardian’s Helen Pidd On British Train Ticket Prices
Following the news that train ticket prices are to go up a little less than the rate of inflation in the new year The...
Pity The Poor Fools – Why Does France Subsidise A High Minimum Wage?
It would probably help matters of the folks over at Quartz understood the relationship between the two things they mention about France. Their piece...
Academics Oppose The Market Because The Market Doesn’t Reward Academics
It's been a long running puzzle, why is it that academics are so resistant to the charms of markets as societal organising methods? My...
Sure, Social Mobility Is Desirable But Politics Isn’t The Way To Go About It
We're not conservatives around here despite the obvious attractions of the Feudal Times and Reactionary Herald. Thus we do think that social mobility -...
The End Game Of Modern Monetary Theory
As we know Modern Monetary Theory is the latest great new plan from the left. Governments aren't constrained by not having any money to...
Logical Fallacy: Argumentum Ad Hominem or Zero Sum Game
As the author of a book on logical fallacies, I am often asked what is the most common fallacy committed by politician and political...
Complete Nonsense From Shelter – Britain Does Not Have 320,000 Homeless
Shelter has a very annoying indeed habit of claiming vast numbers - 320,000 today - of homeless people when in fact this is the...
Sigh, The $9 Trillion Corporate Debt Bomb Was The Entire Point Of Quantitative Easing
We have people worrying about the existence of a $9 trillion corporate debt bomb out there. When reality is that the creation of such...