Markwadsworth

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• I Read It as Far as the First Glaring Error. And Then as Far as the Next One.

  Some economics "professor" in City AM Forum: MY NEXT Gresham professorial lecture has the provocative title "Was Karl Marx always wrong?", but those... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Odd-one out Round & Xmas Cards

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:Odd-one out roundTunny - 23%Tommy Flowers - 23%Alan Turing - 21%Ralph Tester - 17%Bill Tutte - 9% Joh... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 DEBATE

• "Wise Man 'offered Bribe' for Baby Jesus Visit"

  From the BBC: Once again it is that time of year - when we remember Joseph's selection process for the original Nativity line-up. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 DEBATE

• "It's Grim"

  From City AM: REAL wages are still falling, on average, and nobody seems to know what to do about it...  There is a growing body of evidence – including an... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 DEBATE

• Handing Taxpayers' Finest to the Financial Services Sector, Just for the Heck...

  Exhibit One:£482 million a year, almost a fifth of the £2.6 billion NHS budget for maternity services and an estimated £700 for every birth, is being spent on... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 DEBATE

• *ahem*

  From Beaumont Enterprise: MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Phil Collins, the former Genesis drummer whose earnest ballads made him a star in the 1980s, is penning... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 DEBATE

• "The Hunger Game of Thrones"

  From Wiki and Wiki Decades after a civil war known as "the Dark Days", the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros (formerly North America) lies in a... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 DEBATE

• "Extreme Sanction for a Non-member Without a Day Ticket Infringing the Club’s...

  Asks ViewFromTheSolent, who spotted this story in The News  POLICE marksmen shot dead a runaway cow as it hurtled towards a school... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 DEBATE

• Well That's Not "free" Then, is It?

  From The Evening Standard:There may be no such thing as a free lunch but free rent is on offer - providing you have an unique skill. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 DEBATE

• Squeal, Piggies, Squeal!

  From The Telegraph:George Osborne will this week announce plans to squeeze hundreds of millions of pounds of extra tax revenue to fund giveaways such as cuts... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 DEBATE

• The Median Multiple

  

  Economists, policy wonks and journalists from all round the World are united in their analysis of the problem of housing affordability. It's all the fault of th... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 DEBATE

• A Smaller Profit is Not "a Huge Loss". You Twats.

  From The Evening Standard: Research today revealed how the "Stamp Duty Dilemma" forced 14,000 UK homeowners to sell properties at a huge loss last year. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 DEBATE

• The EU is Corporatist (part 94)

  As I said a month ago, based on the utterings of small and large business lobby groups, Big Business likes the EU and small businesses/businessmen don't. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 DEBATE

• "Fears Someone Will Die Due to Rising Use of Flares in Stadiums"

  From BBC SportChildren as young as eight are being used as "mules" to smuggle flares into Premier League matches, according to new research. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 DEBATE

• Germany to Ban "flat-rate" Brothels

  Germany's biggest political parties have agreed to ban so-called flat-rate sex offered by some brothels in the country.The move is part of a clampdown on... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 DEBATE

• The Price Elasticity of Demand for Rented Accommodation

  From The Evening Standard:Charlie, 23, is studying for a masters in public policy at UCL. He spent his first year in London living in a poky two-bedroom flat... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 DEBATE

• Christmas Suggestions - My Little Pony Knackers Yard

  

  Available fro El RegForget games consoles and TV spin-off merchandise, plus the other £10k-worth of useless crap on the Xmas wish list to Santa, the My... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 DEBATE

• Movie Ratings

  Always one of my favourite things, picking up on where professional journalists with their oh-so-high standards who don't do their research. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Who Killed JFK & Codebreaking

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:Who shot the shot which blew JFK's brains out?I couldn't care less - 35%Lee Harvey Oswald, acting... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 DEBATE

• The Supply and Demand Curve for "money" (2)

  

  Continuing my post of last week, where I looked at the supply and demand curve down to about the interest rate which people are or would be prepared to borrow t... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 DEBATE