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Making And Selling Coca Cola Is A Sin Says The Senior Lecturer
A gentleman who is soon to be unemployed as an economics professor tells us that the production and…
How Silly Is This? Malaysia Subsidises Sugar So Much People Smuggle It
Most of the world is desperately trying to reduce the amount of sugar people eat. There are calls…
Berkeley Soda Study – Sugar Taxes Are Definitely, Definitively, Regressive
Much is being made of this new study about Berkeley’s soda tax. That it has all been terribly…
Tanzania’s Idiot Micromanagement Of The Economy – Sugar Imports Edition
There are indeed legitimate functions for the government to perform in a modern economy. There are even ones…
India Raises Sugar Prices To Correct Problems With Earlier Government Mistake
India has just raised the minimum selling price for sugar in a bid to undo the problems caused…
Philadelphia’s Soda Pop Tax – As Marie Antoinette Would Say, It’s The Perfect Tax, Just Super!
Philadelphia has tried out that soda pop tax for us all and we can see how it’s going,…
The One True Method Of Beating Obesity – Turn Off The Central Heating
We’ve a quite lovely revival of the most paranoid theory concerning why we’re all so damn fat these…
If A Fat Tax Upon Sugar, Why Not On Clothes For Landwhales?
It can be difficult to catch up with what it is that we’re all supposed to be doing,…
Indian Government Buys Sugar Farmer Votes By Borking Sugar Mills
To explain this part of Indian economic management it’s only necessary to understand that growing sugar cane is…
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…