Donald Trump Still Wrong On Trade – EU Rips Off Europeans, Not Americans
We've another example of Donald Trump really not quite getting the right end of the stick over trade. He's claiming that the European Union...
Why We Shouldn’t Believe Will Hutton About Anything
As we all know Will Hutton's basic idea for the British economy is that everyone should just shut up and get on with doing...
Amazon The Top Killer Among The Dirty Dozen Employers
Amazon has been shamed by being named the top killer among the employers listed as the Dirty Dozen. The actual shame here being that...
A Fascinating Little Study Of Evolution In Action
Republished from The Conversation.
As biologists explore the variation across the genomes of living people, they’ve found evidence of evolution at work. Particular variants of...
Tankslapper
In motorcycling, there exists the charming term "tankslapper"
A small instability in the steering begins a cascading failure as the handlebars first twitch, then tremble,...
Facebook Should Pay You 2.52 Cents A Day – The Value Of Your Data
We've all seen the fools shouting that data is the new oil. That Facebook makes a mint out of the data we give it...
Amazingly People Are Still Getting Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Wrong
Vast numbers of people do seem to get the invisible hand idea wrong. Adam Smith was quite clear about that penumbra surrounding it- it's...
The Effects Of Roughly Free Market Capitalism On Maoist Idiocy
Amazingly there are still those out there who think that Mao had an idea or two about how to run an economy. Well, obviously,...
Why Do Peasant Farmers Have To Live Like, Well, Peasants?
You never have to trawl far through the writings of the likes of Oxfam, Save the Children and the rest to find them extolling...
Don’t Be Ridiculous, The British Economy Didn’t Grind To A Halt
We've one of those little bugbears turning up in the reporting of the UK GDP figures. The claim that the economy came to a...