Markwadsworth

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• Economic Myths: Building More Homes Will Increase Owner-occupation Rates

  The politicians keep saying that owner-occupation rates are falling because homes are too expensive(1), that increasing new construction would get prices down(2... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2016 DEBATE

• “Did You Get a Look at Any of the Houses When You Drove in This Morning?”

  From City AM: Since the club was sold to its new Chinese owner Reignwood Group a year and a half ago, relations with some locals have gone into decline. Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2016 DEBATE

• Maths News: a Small Number Times a Big Number is an Even Bigger Number*

  From The Mirror: Arsenal fans left fuming after Stan Kroenke buys this mega 535,000-acre Texas ranch for £500 million £500 million is of course a... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2016 DEBATE

• Oddly Edited Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From The Evening Standard: Zac Goldsmith grabbed headlines with his claim that a fare freeze by Transport for London would mean a 59 per cent increase in counci... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2016 DEBATE

• Landlord Confirms That "bashing Landlords" Leads to an Increase in...

  The Chairman of the Residential Landlord's Association in today's City AM: When the UK last had [rent controls], the private rented sector fell from 55 per... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2016 DEBATE

• Good

  From the Telegraph The thousand year old tradition of printing Britain's laws on vellum has been scrapped to save just £80,000 a year despite concerns... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2016 DEBATE

• Either They Are Terrible at Maths Or They Are Terrible Liars.

  Exhibit One From The Evening Standard: Zac Goldsmith claims Sadiq Khan would fund fares freeze with 59% rise in council tax The row between the mayoral... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 DEBATE

• This is Not Evidence That a Brexit Would Help UK Exports...

  We have gleefully shredded many of the non-arguments put forward by the Remainers. In the spirit of fairness, it must be said that some Leavers are making the... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 DEBATE

• "Violent Puppet Show Sparks Apology, but Jailing Puppets Was Wrong, Says Madrid...

  From CBC News: Madrid city hall apologized Monday to parents for exposing their children to a violent puppet show, but says jailing the puppets for allegedly... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 DEBATE

• What a Load of Alarmist Nonsense

  Here If lots of illegal immigrants without adequate papers are allowed on cross channel ferries by lax French border officials and end up at Dover, from what I... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2016 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Plastic Bags & Storm Names

  The results to last week's poll were as follows: How many plastic bags did you or members of your household pay 5p for last month? Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2016 DEBATE

• Flowchart: Free Early Education, Working Tax Credits/Childcare Element,...

  

  In my capacity as number-cruncher for the Citizen's Income Trust, I have spent this weekend trying to get the bottom of all the overlapping schemes which variou... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 DEBATE

• Private Banks and Credit Creation: If You Make It Seem Complicated, You Just...

  By Prof. Steve Keen at Forbes: The great tragedy of the global economic malaise is that it is caused by a shortage of something that is essentially costless to... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 DEBATE

• Interesting Problem

  From Yahoo MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Seven Muslim workers at an eastern Wisconsin manufacturer have been fired after disregarding a break policy that did not allow... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 DEBATE

• Economies of Scale: The Most Valuable Land There Is.

  

  Here (part 1 of 3) Prof Geoffrey West explains that all biological entities from DNA to cities have evolved from the exploitation of economies of scale... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DEBATE

• That Ban on Taxpayer-funded Charities Lobbying the Government...

  … is not so much loopholes as a gate without a fence. From the BBC: Organisations given UK government grants will be banned from using the money to try to... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DEBATE

• Taking 'bansturbation' to Its Logical Conclusion.

  From The Daily Mail: PORN SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE DRINK DRIVING, EXPERTS ARGUE America is in the grip of a pornography pandemic that has become so serious it... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DEBATE

• Saturday Afternoon Gearchange

  

  Just to remind us of how shit pop music was in the 1983 - 1988 cycle, "Rhythm of the night" by DeBarge. The middle eight, starting about 2 minutes in is a tone... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DEBATE

• Bus Wankers

  From the BBC In Witney, Oxfordshire, represented in Parliament by David Cameron, the 213 and 214 services are among those under threat as part of county-wide... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 DEBATE

• The Endless Riddles of Home-Owner-ist Logic...

  From The Telegraph, two days ago: Landlords will sell 500,000 properties in the next 12 months, according to new research from buy-to-let investor trade body th... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2016 DEBATE