Capitalism Vs Socialism In The Oil Business – Venezuela Vs Texas
One of those arguments in favour of socialism, in favour of governments doing things, is that the free market is just too short term....
Homebase’s CVA- An Oddity And An Explanation
Homebase is trying to organise a company voluntary arrangement, a CVA, in order to get out from under its rent bill. If this all...
Sure Medicare For All Would Be Cheaper – By Cutting Doctor And Nurse Salaries...
Bernie Sanders has his idea of Medicare for all as a method of cutting the costs of health insurance in the United States. Or...
Île d’Oléron – Banning McDonald’s Is Proof You Think People Want McDonald’s
A standard part of the prodnose playbook is to insist upon banning something you don't like. Say a supermarket being built in your town...
THE METROPOLITANS — Episode Twenty Five
A saga of everyday life in the Big L and a wry look at contemporary culture
Episode Twenty Five
Where am I? Her surroundings were strange....
Bernie Sanders Aims At Amazon And Gets Millions Of Low Wage Workers Fired
If only Bernie Sanders understood even the merest hint of economics. But then, obviously enough, if Bernie Sanders understood any economics then he'd not...
This Propensity To Truck And Barter Really Is Prehistoric
We might even define this international trade stuff as being something human beings do as soon as they can. And every example we know...
What’s Wrong In India – All 8,000 Fail Goa’s Exam To Be Government Accountants
There is one way of looking at this little story, which is that education in India isn't what we might all hope it will...
WhatsApp Turns Down India’s Demand For Message Traceability – Rightly So
It's clearly true that untraceable messages create problems for law enforcement and even the suppression of incitement to violence. However, the ability to send...
The Reason For The Globalisation Of Tech R&D
Why are companies employing all these foreigners to do this work? Why are they offshoring? Because there isn't the talent at home:
The IT revolution...