Yes, but they've always been like that. What's new is that this elected government is too ignorant of the private sector, or indeed of anything except shovelling cash to scroungers, to act … (View Post)

Stop deflating the self-righteous with your boring "logic" and "facts". There's virtue to be signalled, hair-shirts to be worn and economies to be destroyed. And Ed Miliband … (View Post)

We need to get away from the idea that Trump is ideological in any way. He is opportunistic and transcational (though he never upholds his side of the transaction if it doesn't suit him). Trump … (View Post)

But if the government builds houses, it will doubtless create a surplus of ugly, crap ones and a shortage of good ones, as it usually does when it tries to produce anything. Oligopolistic developers … (View Post)

Actually it's a rather confused article that mixes up causes and effects and jumps between quite different economic concepts very easily. Just a few points of many more I could make while I fini… (View Post)