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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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"Grand Theft Auto Fan is Stabbed, Hit with a Brick and Robbed by Characters...
From The Daily Mail: A 23-year-old man was hit with a brick, stabbed and robbed by characters from the newly released Grand Theft Auto computer game in a... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 DEBATE -
Economic Myths: High Interest Rates Encourage Saving; Low Interest Rates Boost...
These platitudes are trotted out over and over again, and are repeated at Wiki There must be something in it, but Excel tells us otherwise. Read more
Posted on 17 September 2013 DEBATE -
Is This Pryce Woman Really an Economist?
From the Daily MailBut from the economist’s point of view, it is a tax that is set at an arbitrary level with no economic justification for that level or the... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Common Sense?
On R4 this morning I actually heard the Cleggster say something almost sensible. No. Really. He did.He sayeth, in response to a question about Mansion Tax,... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
"Clegg and Alexander Reject Cable's Warning Over Help to Buy"
From The Guardian:Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander have dismissed a call by their Liberal Democrat colleague Vince Cable to restrict the second phase of the... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Fun Online Polls: The Olympics & The BBC
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:The 2012 Olympics cost each UK taxpayer about £350. Did you get your money's worth? Read more
Posted on 16 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Reader's Letter Of The Week
From The Evening Standard (Monday 9 September, page 53):In his rush to warn us of the "danger of the debate about Britain's place in Europe... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Land Monopoly Black Hole (LMBH).
An astrophysicist observes clusters of orbiting stars moving at incredible velocity, or the bending of light without the influence of any object, or beams of... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
UK Housing Stat's
There's a view which says that you can get house prices down by building more, which has a lot of superficial appeal, but the closer you look at actual hard... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Dead Weight Cost of Estate Agency.
The just released ONS Labour Market Statistics here, shows an increase of 15.9% in one year, in the number of people working in real estate activities. The tota... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
"Bank of England Must Guarantee a Permanent House Price Boom, Says Rics"
From the BBC: The Bank of England should use its powers to generate house price increases of at least 5% a year - more than double the normal inflation target... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
"Millionaire Neighbours at War Over 10ft Strip Dividing Their Gardens"
From The Telegraph: Gerald Mead, 71, a property developer, claims the row started when trees he had planted when he moved into his house in Kingswood, Surrey, 2... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
"Kenya Aquifers Discovered in Dry Turkana Region"
From the BBC: A huge water source has been discovered in the arid Turkana region of northern Kenya which could supply the country for 70 years, the government... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Goats and a Cadillac
The BBC runs, for the umpteenth time, a story about the Monty Hall Problem, with which I am sure you are all familiar. It ends with this: Next year we will nee... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Hopes Raised, Hopes Dashed...
From the WSJ: The area of Arctic sea ice was nearly 30% greater in August [2013] than a year ago, according to recent satellite data, though projections based o... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Slow News Day
From the BBC: The rate of unemployment in the UK dropped to 7.7% between May and July from 7.8% in the previous three months. The number of people unemployed... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
"We're the Glen Millers"
From Wiki and Wiki In 1942, at the peak of his civilian career, low level marijuana drug dealer David Clark (Jason Sudeikis) is robbed of his money and stash an... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
"Lucozade and Ribena Sold for £1.35"
From the BBC: A bottle of Lucozade and a small box of Ribena have been sold by Mr Patel at the corner shop in Sudbury to a Japanese tourist and his wife... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Fun Online Polls: Syria & The Cost of the 2012 Olympics
The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:What do you think the UK government 'should' do about Syria?Absolutely nothing, steer well clear -... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS -
Bribing the Voters with LVT.
At election time, the ruling party's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of tax cuts. Tax cuts for their supporters of course and sneaky tax rises for those that... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS