Here’s Your Higher Minimum Wage – McDonald’s To Install No Wage Self Ordering Kiosks...
Concerning the minimum wage we still have our equivalent of economic flat earthers. Those who insist that if we raise the cost of labour...
Take Back The Tap – Water Bosses Cost Households £58 Million!
The GMB has decided to tell us all that the water utilities must be renationalised. Because, and get this, this bosses have made £58...
The UN’s Erik Solheim Is Wrong – We Do Have Infinite Landfill Space For...
One of the current passing fashions that mystifies is this demonisation of plastics. It's simply very difficult to understand how people arrive at the...
The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades – Cancer Edition
About time to revive this little piece about how wondrous the near future is going to be. For we are in a wondrous age,...
How Wondrous, GMB Reports That UK Has Lost 600,000 Manufacturing Jobs
GMB is an amalgamation of various craft and industrial unions over the decades and as such can reasonably be regarded as having a concern...
Pat Buchanan Doesn’t Understand Trade, Tariffs Nor Even History
Pat Buchanan has been going on for decades about how wondrous tariffs are and if only they were brought back then things would be...
Erdogan Closes Down Uber In Turkey – Missing The Point Of Market Economies
The Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, has just closed down Uber in that country. In the process he's shown, once again, that he doesn't really...
How The Heck Does Wilbur Ross Think The Chinese Economy Works?
Wilbur Ross has made a larege fortune in business. This does not mean that he understands how trade works. Good evidence of which is...
Inequality – Real Inequality That Is – Hasn’t Risen, It’s Still Falling
An interesting point close to my heart. It's possible that income or wealth inequality, as measured purely in cash, has risen in recent decades....
Paul Krugman’s Argument That Fiscal Policy Just Won’t Ever Work
This is not, of course, something that Paul Krugman would either ever say nor mean, that fiscal policy just won't work as a macroeconomic...