The Guardian Sure Has It In For Sean Hannity
It's a little difficult to work out what's going on here between The Guardian and Sean Hannity. They've been running a series on how...
Why The Heck Does Josh Frydenberg Want To Do More Plastics Recycling?
Those with a modicum of economic training will be hard put to understand this story out of Australia. Recycling plastics has just got more...
So, Who Got All The Money From Globalisation?
How income gains from globalisation are distributed
Valentin Lang, Marina Mendes Tavares 27 April 2018
Globalisation stirs a diverse range of sentiments and views: some credit globalisation...
What Everyone Needs To Know About The Helium Market – Don’t Panic!
Timothy Taylor has one of his - as usual - excellent pieces rounding up the economics of a certain situation. This time it's on...
Central Bankers Abhor A Vacuum
“An economy” might be described as the description we slap on our attempts to allocate useful and scarce resources – and the scarcer and...
The Problem With Replacing GDP – Whose Prejudices Do We Encode?
Lord knows there are enough problems with GDP. We're not counting what we really want to know, the consumer surplus. We're getting the effects...
What Would Henry Think Of Ford Abandoning Cars? He’d Love It, He Liked A...
It's not quite true that Ford Motor Corporation is abandoning the making of cars, rather, they're going to make and sell very few saloons...
Steinhoff Sued By Christo Wiese – But, But, Why?
If you were the Chairman of a firm that was spiralling into the deep doo doo why would you then sue it for £3.5...
Jeff Bezos Will Be Pissed – Amazon’s Profits Double
Or perhaps Jeff Bezos won't be annoyed. For Amazon is one of the few companies out there where reported profits are near entirely under...
Huzzah! We’ve Solved Death By Becoming Vegetarians
It's not unusual for us to have a report which insists that if only we do this or that - say, we all grout...