India’s Foolish Doubling Of Textile Tariffs
The creation and or maintenance of a textiles industry has near mythical importance to certain development economists. History redoubles that for India. But the...
Just How Do Countries Become Rich?
How you organise matters makes a great deal more difference than we used to think. It's not that there is a steel plant, some...
As Is Quite Obvious, Trump Has No Clue About The Economics Of Trade
We have this statement from Donald Trump about trade:
.@POTUS: "If I bring the trade deficits down, we could pick up 3 and 4 points...
The Wisdom of Right-Wing Crowds
When you're trying to sell something, you have to understand objection-handling.
Your potential customers will have lots of objections to buying your product or service,...
Will Hutton – Regulate Apple And Censor The Entire Internet
Will Hutton's basic shtick is that the world would be a better place if everyone just damn well got on with what Will Hutton...
Trump Revokes Obama Era Fuel Standards – Excellent, They Were Silly Standards
We've yet another of these sensible pieces of political action by the Trump Administration. He keeps this up and we might all have to...
To Celebrate The Bit Of Economics Karl Marx Got Right
We're told that companies are starting to give pay rises - real income increases that is, above the rate of inflation - but also...
The Fightback Begins – Kroger Tests Not Accepting Visa
Visa, the cards company, is hugely profitable and near everywhere. The two are linked, it's a company using network effects in a double sided...
How To Solve England’s Northern Problem?
According to George Osborne it's more of what he did when he had the power to do it:
Today, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership has set...
Spectacular Implosion At Helios And Matheson – MoviePass Runs Out Of Money To Buy...
We appear to be watching one of the more spectacular corporate implosions of recent times as Helios and Matheson crumbles in the face of...