That Ministry Of Defence Housing Deal Proves It’s Impossible To Plan The Economy
Various statist types, plus the public accounts committee, are complaining that the Ministry of Defence's housing deal was a disaster. Costing billions and billion...
As Papa Johns’ John Schnatter Finds Out, Even Historical References To The N Word...
Whether this is the right way to be going about things or not is entirely up to you. For it is you - and...
The Gravity Model Of Trade And Globalisation
We get told a lot about that gravity model of trade concerning Brexit. Obviously, given that people do trade more with the people geographically...
Oh Aye, Bank Of England Should Freeze House Prices For 5 Years, Should It?
We've another one of these lovely ideas from IPPR, the Institute for Public Policy Research. As with all of their suggestions it manages to...
US Quits Are Up – That Job Market Is Getting Better And Better
The great question about the labour market these days is, well, where the Hell are the wage rises? We've subdued inflation, economic growth is...
Owning Apple’s iPhone, iPad, Shows You’re Rich – Or Have More Money Than Sense
This is a great deal more interesting to economists, illustrative of more that economists know about the world, than it seems. Owning an iPad...
Of Course The UK’s Broadband Is Slow – It’s A Rich Developed Country
The Daily Mail is reacting with horror to the thought that the UK has slipped down the broadband tables. We're only 35th in the...
Britain Must Frack For Gas Or Be The Country With No Beer
The link between the necessity for Britain to get on with fracking for natural gas underneath Liverpool and the risk of our becoming the...
Clean Clothes’ Absurd Demand For Bangladeshi Minimum Wage Rise In The Garment Factories
We'd all like poor people to be richer. The important question is how do we make them richer? Do we follow the tried and...
Again, If Only The Observer Understood Economics
The Office for National Statistics has decided to issue monthly GDP estimates instead of merely quarterly. No, bad idea, even if better information collection...