Saving 17,000 Paper Coffee Cups Costs £250,000 Pounds – Bargain, Eh?
A delightful little example of the flat out idiocy of parts of the environmental movement here. Varied gussets are getting twisted in the war...
UK Services PMI Bounces – That Economy Out There Is Doing Just Fine
There are any number of economic statistics out there for us to take note of. Some of them are usefully important - an inflation...
If Only Commonspace, Or The Senior Lecturer, Understood What They Are Talking About
Another in our infrequent series of discussions about why politics is so screwed - plus, as an added bonus, an examination of whether the...
Where’s All The Economic Growth? Goldman Sachs Blames Apple’s iPhone
Perhaps not blames Apple's iPhone but Goldman Sachs is using the company's products to explain where that missing economic growth is. One of our...
A Clash Of Liberal Values – Denmark’s Special Nursery Policies For Ghetto And Immigrant...
We have an interesting clash of liberal values here. Or rather of claimed to be liberal values rather than real ones. For Denmark -...
Peter Navarro’s FART Act – Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing.
We should all be aware that Peter Navarro - unfortunately Trump's Director of the newly created National Trade Council - has some pretty odd...
Is the NHS the world’s best healthcare system?
From our ever popular series, headlines in The Guardian we can answer:
No.
Is the NHS the world's best healthcare system?
As the article itself points out:
Is...
Venezuela’s Inflation Hits 40,000% – No, Not Socialism But Market Destruction
That Venezuela's economy is now a basket case is clear to all but the most rigid ideologue. The only interesting question left is why...
Why The Heck Is Canada Having Orange Juice Tariffs? That’s Ridiculous
Of course we're all aware that this very idea of a trade war is ludicrous. Each government is promising, with ever greater vehemence, to...
To Explain That Gravity Model Of Trade For You
A standard observation is that places which are closer together trade with each other more than places which are further apart. Add to that...