A Particularly Stupid Analysis Of UK Government Borrowing Costs From Richard Murphy
If only any one of the Tre Professori knew what they were talking about. For Richard Murphy, who does indeed hold three professorial positions...
THE METROPOLITANS — Episode Thirteen
A saga of everyday life in the Big L and a wry look at contemporary culture
By Tony Carden
Episode Thirteen
Dancy moved across the conference room...
Government Debt – So Far So Good
When rich people feel overtaxed, they often find ways to avoid paying tax. As a result, governments get less, despite having demanded more. So...
The Banks’ Gross Profits On Mortgage Holidays
It does need to be pondered over, just where does The Times get these stories from? For here they're claiming that mortgage holidays are...
The Guardian, Wrong Again. You Know, That Always, About Everything Thing?
The Guardian tells us that oil traders are hiring supertankers to store oil in. This is true. The price today is low so why...
IMF Warns That Regulation’s Great – As Long As Banks Don’t Escape It
It does rather depend upon who you read here over the IMF's latest warnings about debt, the next downturn and the final crumbling of...
Jan Care*
Well, well, well, just look what’s happened!
That overhyped and touted IPO by Lyft is now in the doldrums. There’s this piece here by USA...
The FT Entirely And Completely Misunderstands AIM Tax Breaks
If only the country's main finance and economics newspaper was written by those with a smattering of knowledge about finance and economics. Not something...
De Fault Is In The Stars
Yeah, a really bad pun, but we specialise in such. So what recently caught our eye here in our dark scribbler’s pit was a...
Turkey’s Proof That Speculation Is A Zero Sum Game
A useful little proof from the current Turkish shenannigans that speculation, as speculation itself, is a zero sum game. Whatever is made by one...