Weird From The FT – Who Should Pay For Heathrow If Not The Passengers?
The Financial Times has a very strange piece worrying about who is going to pay for the Heathrow expansion to a third runway and...
If BCG Cures Diabetes Then Does No BCG Cause Diabetes?
We have, as we know, an epidemic of diabetes these days. Swathes of the population are blowing up like balloons, limbs falling off gangrenous...
Amazon Will Be Pleased – Scotus Allows States To Insist Upon Online Sales Taxes
For the early years of Amazon's existence it was just fine with the idea - and the law - that it didn't have to...
Wilbur Ross Gets All Soviet Over US Steel Price Rises – Speculators, Not Tariffs,...
Wilbur Ross has decided to go all Soviet over recent price rises in steel in the United States. So, he, Robert Lighthizer, The Donald...
That Heathrow Expansion Will Damage Regional Airports Shows Heathrow Should Expand
It's a fairly basic observation concerning market economics that if the expansion of one producer lowers the output of other such producers then it's...
Gosport Painkiller Deaths – The Heinz Kiosk Answer
The allegation - reasonably founded it seems - is that patients at a hospital in Gosport were routinely given opiates which were not strictly...
China Taxing US Oil Exports Makes No Difference – Oil Is Fungible
There are worrying things about the trade spats between Donald Trump and China. But the threat of Chinese tariffs upon US oil exports (or...
Today’s Misunderstanding About Poverty In New York City
Harper's has up a piece complaining about how Manhattan, and by extension New York City, just isn't the same as it was when the...
Despite The LSE Stalinist Central Planning Is Not More Efficient Than Markets
That the LSE is the school of economics does not mean the economics offered by all who teach at the LSE is correct. So...
But Would The People Of Bihar Prefer Alcohol To The Land Of Cheese And...
The Indian state of Bihar banned all alcohol a couple of years back. They've also hired a couple of, erm, think tanks, to study...