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- Why Adam Smith denounced slavery
- Baked bean tariffs benefit baked bean manufacturers
- Obama had some things right
- Ending the slave trade, all of it
- What’s the right way to treat landlords?
- The marginalized and the rioters
- Did Britain get rich because of slavery?
- The answer to unmitigated marklets is unmitigated markets
- What have the tech giants ever done for us?
- They’ve got us banged to rights
- As ever, it’s government that produces shortages
- The romantic delusion
- The Taxman in Your Bank Account
- Do we, really, have to make this same Keynesian mistake all over again?
- Redesigning the Sinclair C5
- What a wondrously blithe assumption
- Who killed the pub: Gen Z or the Treasury?
- Making the same old mistake about the water companies
- Britain invented nuclear power. Why did it forget how to build it?
- Renewables are just so wondrously cheap, aren’t they?
- Reigniting British Ambition
- We have good news for Scott Kirby, the United Airlines CEO
- Victimhood
- You can only have a shortage if you’ve fixed prices
- Misunderstanding the free part of free markets
- Naming versus explaining
- Rates versus rents
- This idea should make us all nicely poorer
- Conkers, Custard Pies and the Cult of Caution
- Let’s help debtors by making borrowing more expensive
- This is just normal politics
- Hot and bothered over the lack of prices
- Supersonic again
- But people do not value organic food, organic farming
- The Guardian’s subs could still improve
- Slavery is not history
- Why do they want to condemn billions, forever, to the peasant lifestyle?
- The implications of designer babies
- Green capitalism isn’t even a thing
- Old Madsen’s Almanack
- Eamonn Butler in Indianapolis: Adam Smith, in graphic novel form
- A lovely example of the costs of bureaucracy
- We don’t believe them when they talk of inequality
- Causes of wealth and poverty
- Just a thought about M. Piketty’s plan for this century
- Adam Smith on the huge efficiency from specialisation
- Why I Am Not in Favour of Equality
- The positive aspects of modern advertising
- As we’ve been telling George Monbiot, prices work, yea even with climate
- Bank of England bond sales don’t cost taxpayers anything
- What Could Help the Tidö Parties Win in September 2026?
- Those billionaires, doing their hoarding, do grow the economy
- Why spend £4.5 billion on poverty yet reduce poverty by not one whit, iota nor pip of a percentage point?
- Barriers to young aspirers
- They probably don’t mean what we hope they mean
- The problem is the absence of capitalism
- The bureaucracy is not the thing
- This is a dismal justification for a National Care Service
- Putting a million neets into work
- This all seems a little swift to be honest
- Remembering Douglas Mason
- Help people, not property
- As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly
- Lives saved by switching to vapes
- Why not find out first, spend second?
- Allow us to just interpret Willy Hutton and Andy Haldane for you here
- Why would we want to create yet another black market?
- Time is the simplest thing
- The numbers don’t add up
- That devolution idea didn’t last long then
- Well, now we’ve agreed we’ve got to cut spending….
- Contrasting philosophies
- Nationalisation gives us less, more expensively
- Overseas representatives
- Passing the Billionaire Tax proves that the Billionaire Tax should not be passed
- Much-needed inventions
- Some statements just make us gurgle like a drain
- We appear to be getting the trades unions on board
- We’re deeply unconvinced by this mithering over AI e-waste
- Britain's Childcare Problem Is Regulation, Not Money
- Fable of the bees
- A logical point about the slavery reparations movement
- We don’t believe claims of social value
- Lentils!
- March of the killjoys
- The sweet summer children discuss fascism
- Paying their fair share
- We have to understand the effect of AI on jobs correctly
- Better or worse in future
- Why free markets, not taxes, will lift Kenya out of poverty
- We’re what? Running out of mackerel you say?
- A lovely example of why politics is bad at economics
- Two futures for Britain
- Interest rates are interest rates whatever the Chancellor says
- Sixty errors
- D’ye mean people queue for below market price items?
- We don’t believe the Resolution Foundation for a moment here
- Singapore on Thames
- The case against IR35
- Ukraine Between Hobbes and Adam Smith
- The politics nix
- The Guardian describes capitalism very well
- Apocryphal, perhaps, but illustrating the point
- Markets are forward looking
- My final List of Useful Maxims
- This has been true of capitalism from the very start
- The revolution of 1776
- Perhaps the arts don’t run on logic?
- Students and business
- Ah, no, sorry Ms. Badenoch, this does not work
- Unfunded welfare
- Humans will exploit every set of rules. Really, every.
- Carnival does not generate £396 million in economic impact
- Most taxes end up a shade over the peak of the Laffer Curve
- Of course people will try to poison - sorry, influence - the information well
- Addressing the Generational Gap
- Recycling’s great but you do have to have something to recycle
- Statue of Justice
- Isn’t the free part of free market capitalism so lovely?
- Smoke Without Fire: Why Cigars Should Not Be Cigarettes in Law
- So, that settles that as a cause then
- Bond vigilantes for Dummies
- The economics where most people misunderstand
- Hume 250 years later
- Apparently central planning is bad now
- The Quiet War on Choice
- Why not, you know, just stop charging for landfill?
- Of course ocean iron fertilisation research should be funded
- Another tragedy of the absence of capitalism
- Of course we can make ourselves poorer - but why bother?
- Lower the taxes on tobacco and alcohol
- But global inequality has fallen, is falling and, as far as anyone knows, is going to continue to fall
- Very well done here, vry well done that men
- A winning Cold War weapon
- Wildfires mean we have to fire all the on-call firefighters
- The Pub and the Prep School: Two Deaths, One Cause
- This is not a good augury for the water companies
- We do not believe the AFL-CIO in their estimate of the Labor Share
- But what if synthetic natural gas actually works?
- Someone should study this phenomenon
- A lovely example of petitio principii
- Taking us by surprise
- To take Marx’s warning about monopoly capitalism seriously
- Bring Them Back
- Nationalisation as a money sink
- Gary Stevenson’s absolutely right, we have done this before
- Rich countries face ageing populations
- Hayek’s generosity of spirit
- The Betrayal of Founders: How Institutions Drift from Their Original Missions
- The way out is significant economic growth
- The case for Individualism
- Any, and every, system will be gamed. Always
- Happy Birthday Hayek
- Bringing back baby bonds
- To solve Birmingham abolish the Equality Act
- Equality is not necessarily good
- Now that we have a cure we mustn’t use it
- This event perfectly justifies what I want to do anyway
- A class thing
- Airport drop off charges are because some people are disturbed
- But a fat and healthy working class is the thing that I most fear,
- The Yearning for Stasis
- We’d prefer that neither answer was true
- Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman
- Trading Our Way to Wealth
- Again - forest fires are not about summer heat but winter rains
- A tax system that fines the behaviour that growth requires
- As fine an argument for minarchy as you’ll ever see
- A Rogernomic strategy
- Scotland proves the Laffer Curve once again
- What we really value about the NHS
- Compulsory Voting
- The perils of these international law things
- The value of that speculative froth in the financial markets
- Fishing for profit…
- We do wonder sometimes
- The case for advising businesses to abolish corporate HR departments
- Against the £2 bus ticket price cap
- Equality, diversity and inclusion costs money
- Now we’ve established the principle, let’s cut all taxes
- Why, yes, we are against this wealth tax too
- Return of the guilds
- Why bother to reindustrialise the country?
- Chance and its consequences
- Opting out of compulsion
- Anyone got the number for the logic police?
- Past their sell-by date
- They’re complaining about how efficient Jackdaw will be
- Has everyone gone mad?
- Why the government makes our streets a little uglier
- An annual tax on wealth could be called theft by instalments
- That disturbing feeling of - partially - agreeing with Moira Donegan
- Railing against railings
- Monarchs, politicians and the national interest
- Evidence we should sell the NHS for scrap
- Adam Smith: The Conversation Continues
- A Prettier Britain, at low cost
- Let Sunday Trade: The Case Against the Six-Hour Rule
- This is the wrong way to decide Rosebank and Jackdaw
- Adam Smith on the productive magic of specialisation and free exchange
- Brave business leaders on Brexit
- Determined and obsessive achievers
- Illegal workers
- The chutzpah here, the unmitigated gall
- On the Manchester model
- Eating cheaply
- High tax rates really do stop people working
- Paying for landfill
- A Doctor in the Chemist's
- Unintended consequences: the anti-growth ‘Mansion Tax’
- We don’t believe the productivity numbers about AI
- Britain's Productivity Problem Is a Choice
- Perhaps we shouldn’t tax vapourware
- The Oldest Error in Economics
- Proof perfect that higher income tax rates would be just too, too, much
- Helping Hands: The Case for a National Volunteer Emergency Corps
- If only journalists could grasp the basics
- The bias of the intelligentsia
- The value of a UK university degree
- Why mislead in politics? Because it works, obviously
- It’s an interesting definition of poverty
- Politicians ignore consequences
- A further Group of Useful Maxims
- Why Capital Gains Tax Rates cannot be the same as Income Tax rates
- If this is a life and death story then we’d better get the details right
- House prices are falling - sorry, they are
- Isn’t market competition just the utmost gorgeousness?
- A Greenland suggestion
- Isn’t that vicious lust for capitalist profit just so gorgeous?
- The chief things wrong with Britain today
- That capital gains tax uplift at death
- The seas they pillage
- The error in Mazzucato’s thinking
- We’re against easing the pain of paying tax
- Imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face, forever
- Restoring masculine self-worth
- Mind the revolving door
- How joyously expensive Net Zero is!
- Degrowth makes us all poorer
- To celebrate the joy of baby banks
- What might deter a talented youngster from the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Germany from coming to live and work in Britain?
- We’ve had the answer for two centuries now
- The popularity of the Zero Sum Game fallacy
- Up the propaganda, Comrades!
- Could the Highland biting midge be eradicated
- To remind: Investment is a cost
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls
- Could a device, maybe a beam from an aeroplane, cause explosives to detonate spontaneously? This would include firearms as well as missiles and drones?
- Reefer madness is all the capitalists’ fault, d’ye see?
- Clearly, taxing the extremely rich is an important thing
- Methods that might reduce recidivism
- Contra Kruger
- A pivotal by-election: the issues raised relating to markets and regulation
- Pro Kruger
- At last, Polly Toynbee is getting the question right
- Childcare costs
- Experiments produce results
- Brexit’s paradoxical consequence: the unloved colossus of the City matters more than ever
- Ending world hunger
- Policy areas where genuine new thinking is most needed
- To remind: Human beings have taste buds
- Adam Smith’s Birthday
- It’s the questions not asked that always interest
- Why would Britain desire a Latin employment market?
- This isn’t what net zero means, Mr Monbiot
- Class Dismissed: Why Britain Should Stop Keeping Score
- Is this wholly, entirely, the time to be rebuilding the swamps?
- Palantir’s weird tax trick - paying the staff
- The importance of opportunity
- Two misguided years
- Does no one at all at The Guardian have a clue?
- Two anniversaries, one lesson: Adam Smith and the making of America
- Mr Smith goes to Glasgow
- Fourteen wasted years, 2010–2024
- The young will pay for equal pay
- When the simple and obvious solution is illegal
- The problem with independent bureaucracies running things
- Waiting list deaths
- The linguistic trick about North Sea gas reserves
- A better world since 1968
- The BBC is being more than a bit cheeky here
- But of course manufacturing falls as a percentage of the economy
- Shorter attention span
- Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan
- We’re at the “Oh, but it’s good that it happens” stage now
- Judicial overreach
- Ryanair, Easyjet, and just say no to a Financial Transactions Tax
- Coincidences are just so happenstancey, aren’t they?
- The important detail of that National Food Strategy
- A snippet of future education
- Single Issue Fanatics and central planning
- Transforming social care
- Bill McGuire and first derivatives
- Thinking about Conservatism
- The American left learns some economics
- Assuaging NIMBYs
- Up the propaganda output, Comrades!
- This is sensible from Andy Burnham
- We tend to think financial repression is not the answer
- George Monbiot is going to be dreadfully disappointed
- A liberal growth agenda for the UK
- We’re between the absurd and insane stage already, are we?
- Burnham-on-Thatcher
- Shoulda gone fracking
- The SNP's John Swinney intends to impose price controls on food
- We make predictions about the Pensions Commission
- Social democracy is more capitalist, more free market, than we are
- HS2 has attracted substantial criticism across several dimensions
- So how much does recycling really, really, cost?
- Our Word, so supply and demand works for housing then, does it?
- There are no bond market vigilantes
- What housing policy has aimed to do
- The Little Platoons can carry the weight of the lifts
- These terrible new child obesity numbers
- The aims and results of UK energy policy
- No wonder Willy Hutton gets so confused
- Fewer Babies, Fresh Answers
- The billionaires already gave at the office
- Trade’s the way to guarantee food supplies
- What Britain's planning system has achieved
- British inequality is a lot less than as measured
- So, how do we fund British industry then?
- The gains from Brexit - Ten years on
- To repeat the simple solution to Britain’s benefits bill
- Foreign lessons
- Captain Neoliberal saves the planet
- This doesn’t seem like an appalling constraint
- Here is the other shoe drop about profits and children’s homes
- Edmund Burke wins again
- A big story of 2025
- Which schools are they talking about? The PFI ones or the non-PFI ones?
- Minimizing tax liability
- Just how long is it since we saw Polly T make an interesting point?
- Norway’s wealth tax
- Commercial interests are not national interests
- Privatizing foreign aid
- Privatization’s the word
- Will Hutton’s bad ideas come back like garlic burps
- So, is it about the economics or not?
- It’s the period of time that’s the problem
- Isn’t this wonderful? Scrumptiously gorgeous?
- Come awf it
- That PJ O’Rourke question - when is government finished?
- The driverless future is coming soon
- Why would we care about “neocolonialism”?
- Replacing student loans with sponsorship
- As we’ve been pointing out to George Monbiot for decades now - prices work.
- Professor Adam Smith
- Esperanto is not the model
- Perhaps only an autocracy can have a directed economy?
- The curse of civil servisitis
- To answer Polly Toynbee’s question - 40%
- You can’t plan in the face of ignorance
- “Unearned profit” is an interesting idea, no?
- Does AI make central planning work?
- Types of poverty
- Help to Buy was not a wise idea, no.
- The EU’s effects on poorer countries
- If we could just remind - profit is value added
- The likely impact of the new-self-fertilizing-wheat
- Completed Maxims
- Our word, really? But, but, that would mean that prices work!
- Politics is the wrong way to run a Navy
- Goodbye to the property ladder
- Zack and the Green Party shoot for the impossible
- What do fixed bottle tops achieve?
- Lies, damned lies and political machinations
- Why the Intelligent Forget the Obvious
- T’was ever thus
- How evil of the Americans this is
- R.I.P. Rodney Atkinson
- Sustainability? Nah, we need resilience
- Did you know that tax rates can be too high?
- Reducing the school run jams
- Changing Cadbury’s chocolate
- Lawless Britain
- Quick, quick, change the system of measurement!
- It’s precisely the speech that upsets people that must be protected
- It’s which infrastructure, not how much
- Why we’d not trust Kate Pickett with the teaspoons
- Lifestyles of the rich and famous
- Doesn’t this just sprinkle on some people’s chips?
- Ooooh, no Missus, tax them over there and give me the money
- Yet Another Group of Useful Maxims
- This seems like a proper problem
- Thinking logically about slavery reparations
- State subsidy - of politics or industry - always has the same outcome
- Guardian columnist discovers Hayek
- We fear the Sec of State is confused here
- Still More Useful Maxims
- But, but, insider information is the very point of prediction markets
- But this is the very point of tariffs
- What lower birth rates mean
- Yet More Useful Maxims
- If we could just remind: Incentives matter
- Schroedinger’s child poverty - Be £8,000 a year better off and just as poor
- So we just pass a law fixing prices and that’ll be that, right?
- What joy - more land planning?
- 250 Years After The Wealth of Nations And Still The Government Don’t Listen
- Isn’t the wasteful, speculative, froth on financial markets just wonderful?
- Even More Useful Maxims
- If it costs £34,670 to fire someone then fewer people will get hired
- Entrepreneurial capitalism - the greatest deal in all of history
- More Useful Maxims
- Excellent news - coffee farms cannot find the workers
- Our word, isn’t this just terrible?
- That Irish basic income for artists did not work, no
- How else did anyone think this was going to work out?
- 55% is over the peak of the Laffer Curve for income tax
- Charlie Munger’s advice for Our Andeh
- The New Domestic Revolution
- That something need be done is not proof that this is the something that need be done
- The unelected judge and the flight he grounded
- The Government should launch Welfare Bonds
- AI and the balance of power
- Britain's strengths
- Why emphasise the costs of Net Zero?
- A strong case for the UK to withdraw from the jurisdiction of ECHR
- Reparations and the climate change interest rate
- This is a remarkably odd idea
- Wah! Wah! Change the rules!
- This is the trouble with politics
- Seems entirely fair to us
- Something of an interesting philosophic difference
- Isn’t politics vile?
- Sometimes a perceived problem doesn’t have a solution
- To remind: AI should be biased because the world is biased
- As we’ve been saying, the student finance sector is working perfectly
- ‘Xac’ly - Britain needs at least 5 million more second homes
- Bernie Sanders seems to be missing the point here
- So the US is starting a digital BBC World Service, is it?
- So people are fiddling their government mandated targets, are they?
- We are intensely relaxed about this
- The student loan system is working just perfectly
- To remind of a Paul Krugman point
- We did tell you so
- Of course valueless pubs should be converted
- Apparently you should not want what you do want
- If the system doesn’t work why not change the system?
- Allowing for differences
- SEND Funding
- The Household Analogy works just fine for Goverment
- Cheap future energy
- Public control is an excellent idea, yes Prime Minister
- The expiry date welfare needs
- From the mouths of babes and sucklings
- Well, yes, it’s the capitalists who have the capital, d’ye see?
- Hype crazes
- We predict a black market arriving in 3…2…1…
- Unlocking the Northeast
- In defence of ISDS, once again
- George Monbiot really is a one, eh? Such a wag
- Another Group of Useful Maxims
- Free to choose is the very point of liberalism
- They’re not even understanding Smith now, well past Hayek
- As Oxfam points out governments are just blowing the money
- It’s worth reminding ourselves what the private credit risk is
- Oh come on, seriously?
- Five years ago tomorrow we left the EU
- There’s no one else to pay for water but us punters
- Hayek for the win. Again.
- This means Britain is doing better, not worse, from AI
- This about police forces doesn’t seem logically correct
- Date-sliding
- Failure by Hayek is no better than failure by Laffer
- Who could have known, eh? Whocouldaknowed?
- Lucky we’re not ruled by these people then, isn’t it?
- Will Britain finally ditch the failed NHS model?
- How hugely cheap a carbon tax would have been
- There’s getting tariffs wrong then there’s getting tariffs wrong….
- Oxfam’s demand doesn’t even make logical sense
- Save trial by jury
- Helping Hospitality
- Oh, well done, stealing from socialists to protest capitalism.
- We’d suggest this claim by George Monbiot is not, in fact, true
- Sadiq Khan means ministers must do less, right?
- Why fossil fuel companies don’t do renewables
- We have to admit we don’t understand Ed Miliband here
- Right of reply
- The perils of naughty piccies by Grok
- Labour U-turns and Thatcher’s blame
- Say it ain’t so! Dodgy numbers in climate change calculations
- The power of words
- The costs of the regulatory state
- Pay universities for results
- Quantity of supply changes house prices. No, really
- Why I Am an Optimist
- How government makes us poorer
- It’s because they hate the bourgeois
- Robots and AI will replace cheap, low-skilled labour
- How just glorious the newly renationalised railways are going to be, eh?
- Major problems where advanced technology holds real promise
- This is a complaint about bureaucratic smokeblowing, not AI
- The popular view is wrong
- Polly T insists we must indeed have censorship
- Learning from abroad
- Is Britain’s nationalised water better than Britain’s privatised water?
- The difference between it’ll happen and we must plan it to happen
- Sure, let’s just give homeless people money
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- Such an appalling thing to have to worry about
- How absolute is absolute poverty then?
- Perhaps “The 1976 Consensus”?
- The beauty of modern streaming
- Marmite scented deodorant is the very point of free markets
- But what if the people don’t want to do it?
- To remind that, yes, Warren Buffett is wrong
- The perils of the collective over the individual
- When even The Guardian says you’re biased against capitalism
- Sorry, no, these planning reforms are terrible
- OK, so let’s nick all the money off Elon Musk then
- Opportunity matters more than equality
- A note for George Monbiot - this is what politics does
- Britain’s interest rate is now 0.25%
- Another one of those scares
- Introducing competition
- Owen Jones never has quite grasped economic logic
- Blanket bans
- We bet Andy Burnham won’t, you know?
- Endangered or domesticated
- Things run politically become political
- Poor Madsen’s Almanack
- If flytipping is caused by landfill tax then to stop flytipping we should….
- The likely impact of the new-self-fertilizing-wheat
- Peronism wasn’t working, therefore….
- This does seem most sensible to us
- NESO discovers Bill Nordhaus
- The significance of the Granite Act
- Polly Toynbee - finally - notes the problem with politics
- The architectural legacy of the 1960s and 70s
- Cognac Calamities
- Minsky has a point but who is to be the planner?
- Elon Musk isn’t being offered enough money
- We’d not say Gary Becker was always right
- We’re unconvinced by the latest Varoufakis theory, TBH
- Misinformation on Twitter explains the media
- Technology and the environment
- Apparently economic wealth comes from doing things the expensive way
- The BBC scandals
- That £700 million fish disco is why we’ve no productivity growth
- Is it quantity, not quality, of corn syrup that makes the difference?
- How glorious it is to see Worstall’s Fallacy alive and well in The Guardian
- The most hated building in London
- Sweeties after the medicine Chancellor, sweeties after the medicine
- Housing the homeless in the sunshine
- You can toothsuck about what should be all you like, reality’s still going to smack you in the chops
- Of course it’s worse if they do understand this
- Now we know the status quo on the price of holes in the Albert Hall
- The peril of floating ideas
- We call it - UPF is student politics not science
- Funding tax reduction
- Why does everyone want to make the country poorer?
- Venezuela today
- Why try to align if we’re not going to align?
- Watching the All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs)
- Impartiality means no one is allowed to disagree
- There’s a hole in my Budget
- Removing risk removes judgement
- Flytipping is caused by landfill tax
- The medical students are trying it on again
- If China’s state plan says loans will be made then loans will be made in China
- Government gives poor value for money
- This is a grossly selfish argument for banning Shein, Temu etc
- Phasing out HR Departments
- Read More
- The latest whining about inequality
- Oh yes, we approve of this, very much so
- Reducing the cost of energy
- We should recycle more because it costs lots!
- The US does not subsidise fossil fuels by $31 billion a year
- State benefits come from nowhere
- This is almost Murphyesque in its joy
- Removing the obstacles to growth
- But if it’s that expensive just stop doing it anyway
- Self-government within the union
- Japan Keeps Thatcher’s Flame Alive While Britain Lets It Die Out
- Claim about renewables we don’t believe
- Snoopers in High Places
- Whaaat? Less supply pushes up prices?
- Safer without human error
- Productivity isn’t about who owns but who uses
- Time to revive the Eldon League
- To remind: A declaration of an unassailable truth is an attempt to control
- But ‘planes just are cheaper than trains
- George Monbiot wholly kills that economic democracy project
- Remove HMRC priority to boost growth
- It’s not a National Wealth Fund now, is it?
- Nanny controls the cooking
- Another victim of the minimum wage
- Controlling the blob
- John Harris gets confused by the basics of markets
- Private spaceflight is on its way
- Ah, finally, a truly excellent idea from the Government
- Bring on AI
- It’s strange that Polly doesn’t really understand politics.
- We’d rate this as piffle
- Another outbreak of First Wife Syndrome - We did tell you so
- Business rates and help for home buyers
- How marvellous this is
- Curbing mobile phone nuisance
- What? You mean a rushed national plan turns out to be rubbish?
- Dealing with graffiti
- Don’t allow government to nationalise the little people
- Dealing with rat infestation
- The Joy of Industrial Planning
- Margaret Thatcher’s 100th Birthday
- Scouts can clean-up Britain
- The logic doesn’t work here
- The new mercantilism
- Boosting UK investment with opt-out savings
- Baumol means bring your knees in tight
- Governments do indeed face the household limitation on debt
- Collecting the bins
- A note for Zack, Gazza, Dickie and the tax the rich crowd
- Output versus input
- More rights is true, but which rights?
- The nordic model
- Why we need capitalism
- Concerns about Digital ID cards.
- The cure for money in politics is minarchy
- Let’s drive people into the shadow economy to shrink the shadow economy
- If they can’t even organise the bins being collected then….
- Optimism helps
- That propensity to truck and barter
- The baby drought
- To remind of the oddity of M. Piketty’s analysis
- Fixing regulation
- Expanding Gatwick is indeed worth that climate cost
- Rural community
- We don’t believe the analysis
- For better or for worse
- Startling self-awareness from George Monbiot here
- To educate M. Piketty on wealth
- Schrodinger’s oil fund
- Magnates attract status
- Aha! We have the secret of the next budget!
- Against the Treasury mindset
- A guide to the identification of hypocrites
- A New Social Care Savings Plan
- Increasing taxes on having invested reduces investment
- Swedish unemployment
- Willy Hutton is a one, isn’t he?
- Worthwhile projects
- Abandoning Sterling for Rum
- The economic genius of Naomi Klein
- You’d think that someone commenting upon tax would know this
- Phineas discovers markets. Phineas doesn’t like markets
- Promoting free or even paid-for landfill use
- To Chesterton’s Fence transport systems
- The European Union’s Joan Robinson violation
- The pothole problem
- ‘Your papers, please’
- But why is fracking banned?
- The case for wine
- An insight into how we are ruled now
- These boots are made for walking
- What a wondrous waste of two decades this has been on climate change
- It’s economic freedom that makes the poor rich
- Tax from scratch
- Don’t mess with prices
- Making things worse …
- That gurgling sound you hear is us laughing like drains
- We could get behind this Zack Polanski bloke, you know?
- New York’s future
- Abolish the landlords!
- Booming new towns
- We’ve not the numbers to manage the economy - so, don’t
- In which we praise - wildly laud - George Monbiot
- We think we object to this from The Guardian
- Alternatives to a UK ‘Exit tax’
- Just how will we have growth, ever again?
- Counter-productive policy
- If people cash in before a tax rise then are they rational?
- Hasn’t The Guardian changed over the centuries?
- Neoliberalism: the record
- The Rawlsian Veil answer is the United States. Obviously
- The influence of George Orwell
- Guess what? Yes, they’re picking losers again
- Clearly Hayek was wrong, grossly misled
- It’s childcare that makes children so expensive
- What non-economists often misunderstand
- But why does Rachel Reeves want to increase the $7 trillion subsidy to fossil fuels by cutting VAT on domestic energy?
- A question of spending
- Sportsfests are not useful investment, no
- We need to do less about climate change then
- Feedback in learning
- Real and nominal matter when talking about bonds
- Public sector diversity officers
- Eliminating Scotland’s midges
- We’re glad Nick Stern has this all sorted then
- This did make us giggle Mr Chakrabortty. So there is that
- Waste not, want not
- The yield on gilts is not at any type of high
- The gadgets of Memory Lane
- Of course government has to pay the same taxes as the rest of us
- Chainsaw candidates
- An exit tax is an abomination
- Countries do not, in fact, trade
- The Prince’s Reading Challenge
- Financially incontinent, rather than just incompetent
- Investments are still costs Professor, investments are still costs
- The most unpopular tax
- Build on the Green Belt - that’s how we save nature
- So should foreigners volunteer at food banks?
- Recruiting hackers
Undated 31
- Once again, business rates are a tax upon landlords
- Government by lazy, ignorant, drunks works then
- Trump, the modern mercantilist
- Don’t eat or drink anything
- The politically perfect tax - on tourists
- For Mr. Monbiot: Jobs are a cost, not a benefit
- The Guardian proves that renewables are not, in fact, cheaper
- Wages, Baumol and the NHS budget
- What on Earth are The City firms doing here?
- Why are there so few rough sleepers in Japan?
- To remind of Venning’s Law
- Politics never does kill what doesn’t work, does it?
- Charter cities to stimulate growth
- China’s the most free market economy on the planet right now
- Driving pollution upwards
- Perhaps the Anglos and Saxons are just more genteel?
- Government backfires
- So all those who remember Smoot Hawley are dead then?
- Sadiq Khan proves why Britain needs a first amendment
- One of those Facepalm moments in New York City
- We’d suggest changing the planning system, Matey
- No, we don’t think we do believe this climate change plan
- Useful maxims
- Why the future is brighter than you think
- Edward H Crane, Requiescat In Pace
- When taxation is unfair
- We think this is great. No, really, absolutely super
- It’s easy to reduce corruption - cut government
- We do think this is possibly a little unfair
- Idiot decision - fossil is the problem, not diesel lorries
- Budget 2026