The EU Are Much Too Modest About Their Products
Clear product labelling is so important – consumers need information in order to be able to make rational decisions about the products they buy...
Argentina’s Dreadful Poverty Statistics – Depends Who Is Counting And How
A report today that poverty has increased dreadfully under Macri in Argentina. The correct answer really being, well, who is counting and how? It...
When They Become British Stick Insects Stop Bonking
And quite right too, none of that bringing your filthy foreign habits over here. A particular species of stick insect immigrated with some plants...
Dan Davies Is Right – We’ve Not Had A Proper Recession For Decades
Those still nursing tender bruises from the Crash aren't going to like this idea but Dan Davies is interestingly correct here - we've not...
Christiansen and Shaxson Are Either Lying Or Grossly Ignorant On The Subject Of PFI
John Christensen and Nick Shaxson have put together a submission to an inquiry into wealth inequality in the UK. In the course of which...
WeWork Is Long $46 Billion In Leases – And Selling Short
The problem with banking is maturity mismatch. Actually, that's what we have banking for, to do the maturity transformation that we get from maturity...
Mia Khalifa’s Exploitation – $12,000 For 3 Month’s Work
As Gary Becker pointed out - not part of the work which gained him his Nobel in fact - the question is not why...
Fancy That, Speculation Aids Markets
More specifically, speculation aids price discovery in markets:
Purely financial market participants improve spot market performance
Akshaya Jha, Frank Wolak 14 August 2019
Futures trading should make...
To Explain The Danish Negative Interest Rate Mortgage
Denmark now has a bank - perhaps building society or savings and loan - offering a negative interest rate mortgage. You end up paying...
In A Strange Way This Still Doesn’t Solve The Veal Problem
At first sight this new sperm selection method will solve the veal problem. At second sight it won't - perhaps, on the third it...