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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Fun with Numbers
From City AM: This week, fed-up Londoners will be forced to endure two more Tube strikes. And this despite Transport for London having already offered the... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2015 DEBATE -
Yes, but That Was the Whole Point.
From The Guardian: Responding to complaints from banks that the levy has been raised too often and without warning, Osborne set out a timetable of reductions... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2015 DEBATE -
Richard Murphy Points out the Futility of Article 123, Lisbon Treaty
From The Telegraph: [Jeremy Corbyn] has proposed a “People’s Quantitative Easing” scheme in which the Bank of England would “be given a new mandate … to invest... Read more
Posted on 21 August 2015 DEBATE -
"Sierra Leone Records Zero New Ebola Infections"
From the BBC, the article tells you pretty much what the headline suggests. Looks like the human race got away with it, yet again, much as I expected, most of... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2015 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (367)
By Samuel Bowman. There are some excellent rebuttals by the usual suspects in the comments below, but it's basically half baked waffle from the very beginning.... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2015 DEBATE -
The Ten-to-one Ratio Between Overall Market Transactions and Private...
Via Peter Smith on FB, some research by Neal Hudson: The level of private house building is closely linked to credit availability and turnover in the wider... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2015 DEBATE -
Bovis Homes - Unit Sales and Land Bank 2005 to 2014
Prompted by an article in City AM, I did a quick summary (from here) of units sold, plots with planning consent and 'strategic land', i.e. plots where they are... Read more
Posted on 18 August 2015 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Jeremy Corbyn
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: If you had been the US President in August 1945, what would you have done? Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 DEBATE -
"Bulls Kill Seven at Spain Summer Festivals"
From the BBC: Bulls have gored seven people to death during festivals across Spain since the beginning of July - four of them over the past weekend. The deaths... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 DEBATE -
Today I Have Mostly Been...
… removing a small jungle and a few last sad strips of rotting 'tar paper' from the roof of our shed and replacing it with two layers of 250 micron damp... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2015 DEBATE -
The Madness of Levying Business Rates on Cash Machines.
From The Daily Mail: An individual cash machine can attract a business rates charge ranging between £2,500 and more than £15,000 per year for each... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 DEBATE -
Big Number, Small Number, Big Number.
From The Daily Mail: Nearly 40 per cent of council flats sold off at a discount in the last 35 years are now being rented out privately to tenants, a Freedom... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2015 DEBATE -
The Sarcastic Four
From Wikipedia: The four individuals traditionally associated with the Sarcastic Four, who gained superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 DEBATE -
Thoughts on Labour Relations
I've been doing a bit of thinking about labour relations in the past and the current situation and thought I'd bounce some things around 1) Unions rose in a tim... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: Bank Notes in Circulation Are Not Government Debts.
Re a stupid argument I am having elsewhere, allow me to point out that coins and notes are government debts. They might be freely transferable, small... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 DEBATE -
We Own Land! Give Us Money!
Emailed in by MBK from The Telegraph: In the latest case involving elderly home owners urged by salesmen to take out mortgages and invest the cash, a couple... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 DEBATE -
Daily Mail Not on Top Form
The Evening Standard has beaten the Mail at its own game. There's nary a mention of this story on the Mail website (yet): The Surrey home belonging to the... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2015 DEBATE -
Say "Yes" to George
For some gloriously garbled landlord special pleading, have a look at Say "No" To George, spotted by Thomas Hall. As Babs says on the Contact page: I think... Read more
Posted on 12 August 2015 DEBATE -
So That's It Then?
Driving home this evening I happened to be listening to P.M. on R4. They broadcast an item on cycling in Paris. Apparently the Parisian authorites have decided... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2015 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: When You Heard the News & Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What were you doing when you heard the news? Listening to the news - 12 votes Other, please specify ... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2015 DEBATE