To Explain Declining Productivity Growth – Not Enough Companies Going Bust
The single most important determinant of future living standards is whatever increase there is in labour productivity. Quite how that rises is, well, it's...
Pakistan’s Chief Justice Almost Right – Charge For Water, Not For Dams, But To...
When something is in short supply at the current price then a reasonable idea is to raise the price for it. This will, even...
Indian Commerce Dept To Make Indians Poorer – 25% Duty On Solar Cells
The Indian Commerce Department is recommending that all Indians be made poorer. Not quite what we hope our own governments will do to us...
I Guarantee You – Guarantee – That Jeff Bezos Does Not Have $150 Billion
Amazon's share price has been surging, Jeff Bezos owns a lot of the stock of Amazon. Thus we have the reports that Jeff Bezos...
If Only Polly Toynbee Had Read Her Adam Smith
That Polly Toynbee is remarkably uninformed concerning the world around her is an obvious truism. She's far more interested in the visions of sugar...
Diane Coyle – An Actual Economics Professor – Wants A Tax Paid Google And...
It's amazing how many economics professors are prepared to ignore economics when they want to make some political point. Such is what has afflicted...
Siemens CEO Hopelessly Ill Informed About Global Economy
Sure, we should plan this global economy of ours. After all, all those clever people telling us all what to do will be vastly...
Mandy Rice Davies Moment – Of Course Debenhams Denies Cash Crunch
One of the little things that makes modern business dangerous is quite how efficient we've become at it. This means that it is possible...
This Summer’s Crop Failures And The Necessity Of Food Imports
As we're all entirely aware there are those out there insisting that we as a nation should be self-sufficient in food production. There are...
Behold The Effects Of Trump’s Import Tariffs – 16% Price Increases For US Consumers
The part of import tariffs that all too many fail to understand is that it is consumers being "protected" by them who actually pay...