Jay Inslee To Create 8 Million Climate Jobs – But Where Are The Workers?
Jay Inslee is basing his run for the Presidency on a display of naked economic ignorance. He says that he wants to create 8...
Jay Rayner’s Insanity – Solve Food Poverty By Making Food More Expensive!
That Jay Rayner scribes a decent restaurant review is true. That he's grasped even the most basic of economic concepts is not. For here...
Contrary To Popular Belief Immigrants Work More Than Natives
Not that this should be hugely a surprise if we give it a moment's thought. But immigrants have a lower unemployment rate, a higher...
Labour’s Price Trick With Nationalising Electricity And Gas Networks
That the Labour Party wants to renationalise the electricity and gas networks is true. That the Labour Party is insane is true. Even, that...
John Lewis Axes Final Salary Pension Scheme – It’s Not Just Capitalists Like Philip...
The John Lewis group has just axed its final salary pension scheme. In fact, it's just axed the entire idea of a defined benefits...
The Effects Of Tariffs Upon Inflation
So, think through the standard points about trade tariffs. We stick a tax upon goods as they cross the border, inwards. The first two...
The Idiocy Of Tech Companies Doubling Female Managers By 2022
There's odd, there's silly and then there're public targets about the gender gap. It is, I'm sorry to have to say, idiocy to be...
US CPI Inflation Is Still Below Federal Reserve Targets
The big economic question is, well, when is the Federal Reserve going to raise interest rates again? Or, if you're very gloomy about Trump's...
House Of Lords – The New High Speed Train Set Shouldn’t Be High Speed
The standard method of getting a political boondoggle going in this country is to insist that this massive leap forward in technology and its...
The Reality Of That Parkinson’s Disease Connection With Appendix Removal
We don't really know. Partly because that latest research seems to contradict what we thought we already knew, partly because no one has as...