Markwadsworth

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• 'My Little China Girl, She Run My Assembly Plant.... She Rule the World'

  I found this article linked to Ralph Musgrave's blog. It is certainly a very striking example of capitalism from China.Tim Worstall explains that: One academic... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: *Anthea Turner could be raided by bailiffs after failing to settle a debt claim *She is being sued by company executive Amanda Cavill de... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2017 DEBATE

• Steve Keen on Top Form.

  Spotted by Lola at Open Democracy: For a while, this bargain felt win-win for both sides: as the Bank of England recently acknowledged, bank lending creates... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2017 DEBATE

• "Uber London Loses Licence to Operate"

  Same old, same old, one bunch of monopolists fighting another. I use public transport in London (which is excellent and far faster than cabs), so I'm not too... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2017 DEBATE

• "Why a Consumption Tax May Not Make Any Sense at All"

  A splendid article, spotted by BenJamin' in the Nigerian Government Business Journal (but equally applicable to all countries): The devil in the (accounting)... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2017 DEBATE

• We Did Basic Logic at School.

  Me, a few days ago: Rather counter-intuitively, government issued 'money' does not require any asset-backing whatsoever, all the government needs is a system... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2017 DEBATE

• "We Didn't Waste All Our Money on Mobile 'phones. We Rolled up Our Sleeves and...

  From the Resolution Foundation report, emailed in by OnTheOtherHand: Crucially, we show how barriers to entry have increased dramatically, not least from... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2017 DEBATE

• Another One of Those "cow Attacks Dog-walker" Incidents

  From Cornwall Live: A mum-of-two said she thought she was going to die as a cow charged at and then repeatedly stamped on her. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2017 DEBATE

• Daily Mail on Top Form

  From The Daily Mail: Man, 25, charged with murder after brutally stabbing his MOTHER, 50, to death in supermodel Gemma Ward's Sydney house - as police... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Man-made Climate Change & Have You Turned on the Central...

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Are this year's strong hurricanes and Indian monsoon evidence of man-made climate change? Yes - 10%... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2017 DEBATE

• Hard Cheese

  More from Project Fear here: now it's cheese that is threatened by Brexit. ...the British Retail Consortium ... has just issued a report warning that, whatever... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2017 DEBATE

• "A Short Distance Away"

  From The Guardian: The discrepancy was condemned by the Booksellers Association’s Giles Clifton, head of corporate affairs. “The BA has already highlighted the... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2017 DEBATE

• YPP (London) Meet-up, Tomorrow Friday 15 September

  We'll be at The Brewmaster nr Leicester Square tube station from 5.20 or so onwards - if you think you'll turn up later than 6.30, please get in touch... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2017 DEBATE

• Reader's Letter Of The Day

  From today's Evening Standard: You have recently highlighted the issue of 'modern slavery' but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2017 DEBATE

• Read It and Weep

  From The Daily Mail: Last orders for the traditional boozer? A third of British pubs have now closed since the 1970s thanks to rising business rates and beer... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2017 DEBATE

• "Pay Outpaces House Prices in Many Areas". Or Not, as the Case May Be

  From the BBC: More than half of Britain has seen wages rise faster than house prices in the last 10 years, research by a mortgage lender has suggested... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2017 DEBATE

• "It's Different This Time"

  From City AM: British banking is an “accident waiting to happen”, according to a new report from think tank the Adam Smith Institute marking the 10-year... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2017 DEBATE

• Cattle News

  From The Daily Mail: This is the bizarre moment a herd of forty cows came charging through a Cheshire village. The marauding cattle stampeded through... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2017 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Student Immigration Number, Hurricanes and Man-made Climate...

  The results to last fortnight's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Should students from overseas be included in the UK's maximum immigration target? Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 DEBATE

• Economic Myths: The BBC's Brief History of Paper Money

  It's all fine and dandy until this bit: But the government soon moved stealthily to a fiat system, maintaining the principle but abandoning the practice of... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2017 DEBATE