The EPI Gets The Trade Deficit With China Entirely Wrong – Again
The Economic Policy Institute wants to tell us all that the trade deficit with China is a very bad thing, very bad indeed. Because...
How Stupid Do You Have To Be To Complain About This?
From our archives of stupid things believed by British academics:
Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
Inclusive what? The silliness:
More than 500 high-rise developments are...
Scientific American On How Inequality Murders Us All – But What Inequality?
Scientific American has a large report upon how inequality murders us all in our beds. More specifically they've a long piece about how economic...
Oh Dear, Piketty’s Numbers Aren’t Right
That Thomas Piketty offered us all an interesting critique of how contemporary capitalism works is interesting. It's an interesting critique too. The question though...
The Billionaires Are Stealing The Wealth Of The Rest Of Us
So The Guardian would have us believe as they breathlessly report on a wealth study from UBS. What is actually being shown is that...
The Liverpool Tower Block Where We Rip Off The Foreign Plutocrats
We're told of a tower block owned by certain foreigners. Where the tenants are cold and those dastards have been making massive profits. Given...
Why Would We Trust The People Or System That Brought Us The 1970s?
Larry Elliott wants us all to know that it's very important that we kill off inequality so that we all trust each other again....
This Will Be Interesting – Uber Drivers Strike In Mumbai, India
One of the things we tend to believe about the gig economy is that it's going to reduce union power. Indeed, reduce any organised...
Desperately Sad Research About The Internet And Economic Growth – It Doesn’t Produce It
That's one way of looking at this piece of research out of Australia. The internet doesn't produce any economic growth therefore everyone should stop...
The CEA Gets The Nordics Right – They’re Not Socialist At All
The Guardian's getting a little antsy about a new report from the Council of Economic Advisers. One which says that socialism isn't quite all...