India Loses US GSP Status – That’s What Happens To Growing Economies
President Trump has announced that India is to lose its special privileges on exports to the United States. The system is the Generalised System...
So Why Did We Bother To Rescue The Banking System?
That we made a profit on rescuing the banking system is something oft forgotten - or lied about. But it is indeed worth asking,...
Why Do Stock Buybacks Artificially Inflate Per-Share Earnings?
As we all know the cavilling about stock buybacks is a nonsense perpetrated by the economically illiterate. We positively desire that money move out...
Glencore’s Kazakh Gulfstream – What Horrors
This has to be one of the most trivial complaints possible. Or even misleading. Glencore, the mining giant, bought a Gulfstream jet off a...
Local Councils And Unions – The Finest Arguments Against Water Company Nationalisation
That there's whining about the privatised water companies is quite obviously true - we can hear the droning from the likes of Owen Jones...
Girl Power T-Shirts – Factory Wages Are Just Fine For Bangladesh Actually
The Guardian tells us that those Girl Power t-shirts are made in a factory in Bangladesh. One that pays its workers only 42 pence...
For Sadiq Khan Discrimination Against Uber Drivers Is The Point
Given that Sadiq Khan is well in the pocket of the black cab drivers this extension of the congestion charge being discriminatory is rather...
If Marriage Is In The Genes Then So, Likely, Is Intelligence
It's one of the more bizarre beliefs of the modern left that genes don't play any part in intelligence. That we're born as a...
Government As Investor – Air France-KLM Falls 11% After Dutch Govt Buy In
Here's a useful little guide to the value of government as an investor - Air France-KLM's stock fell 11% as the Dutch Government announced...
UK Car Exports To China Fall 72% – It’s Chinese New Year, Dummy
Seriously folks, we should be getting this right by now - no Chinese trade statistics for January or February of any year should ever...