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Why don’t we all move our bank accounts more often?

WHY don’t we all move our bank accounts more often? It’s one of these very strange things about the British economy. We’ve a number of national banks. It’s easy enough to … (read more)

Posted: 9th, November 2012 | In: Money | Comments (3)

Your Kindle books, iTune songs and online videos are worthless

I’M sure we’ve all done the trudge down to the second hand bookshop when the shelves get overloaded. Get back 50 p a copy for the old paperbacks sorta stuff. … (read more)

Posted: 8th, November 2012 | In: Money, Technology, The Consumer | Comments (3)

Floods, hurricanes and the cost of home insurance

AFTER Hurricane Sandy we’ve had the usual claims that climate change is going to make life more expensive for us all. We also get the same thing being said here … (read more)

Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Money | Comment

On The Nonsense That Is Bill McKibben

SO. Dear Old Bill McKibben is out and about again telling us that it’s all these evil corporations that are to blame for climate change:
As gutsy New Yorkers begin the … (read more)

Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

I wonder if we can get The Guardian into the 21st Century?

WILL the Guardian move into the 21st Century? Might be slightly difficult, trying to get the liberal arts types who write the Guardian up to speed. But could be worth … (read more)

Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Polly Toynbee really needs to learn some economics

OK, so there are some nutters out there (like me!) who think that we should leave the European Union. There are arguments about why this might not be a good … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Money | Comment

A nuclear bomb is not a dirty bomb

I’M not sure here whether it’s the Mail getting things mixed up or whether we’ve actually got a government minister getting mixed up. The likelihood of either is so high … (read more)

Posted: 1st, November 2012 | In: Money, Reviews | Comment (1)

UK Uncut really don’t know what they’re talking about, do they?

IN a press release from UK Uncut we see this:
A report in the Times newspaper (20/09/12) outlined how 533 directors of UK companies have registered addresses in Monaco. Despite vetting … (read more)

Posted: 31st, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comments (12)

Amazingly, we treat too many women for breast cancer

WE treat too many women for breast cancer… Yes, yes, I know, this story is from the Mail where everything either causes or cures cancer. However, they are actually correct … (read more)

Posted: 30th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Why manufacturing jobs are leaving China

YOU may not know that this is true: but it is. The number of manufacturing jobs in China is falling. The reason why is really very simple:
A 16pc annual rise … (read more)

Posted: 30th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

French want Google to pay to link to websites

THE latest installment of the Gallic incomprehension of the most basic pieces of economics is that they want to charge Google for indexing the French newspapers. Something that is really … (read more)

Posted: 27th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

Amazon’s about to get more expensive

THE EU has finally woken up to that despicable little bit of tax dodging:
Amazon is to be stripped of its huge tax advantage on the sales of electronic books after … (read more)

Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment (1)

Why is Barroso lying to us about the Robin Hood Tax?

A CERTAIN Mr. Barroso tells us today that the Robin Hood Tax is a really wonderful idea:
Mr Barroso said the legal requirements and conditions had been met and he did … (read more)

Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment

Climate Change will not mean you die from malaria

ONE of the things we’re often told about climate change is that the increasing heat will bring back malaria. As temperatures rise then the mozzies that carry it will be … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Apparently eBay’s dodging taxes too

EBAY is dodging taxes. Or so said the Sunday Times over the weekend. The company, instead of collecting money for stuff here in the UK collects it through it’s Luxembourg … (read more)

Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Making petrol from air

I’VE no idea whether this is just a spoof story that’s been fed to the Telegraph or whether there really are some people sufficiently deluded to think that this is … (read more)

Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment (1)

Help us choose what Apple will say in its Samsung ads

THIS is rather a fun little court ruling. After all the piling onto Samsung that Apple have done in courtrooms around the world now they’ve got to run ads in … (read more)

Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comments (3)

Google, Facebook, Starbucks: The Guardian on how much UK tax corporates pay

THIS is obviously part of a coordinated effort to get something or other changed. The constant drip drip of stories about how much tax multi-national companies are paying in the … (read more)

Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comments (3)

Those godless Tories are slashing Government to the bone!

THE Tories are slashing Government to the bone. That’s what we’re told over in The Guardian. It’s just appalling, the damage that the Tories are doing to the State.

Strip away … (read more)

Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

Britain’s not as unequal as you think

WE hear a lot of wailing about how Britain is more unequal than many other European countries. It’s all down to neoliberalism of course: us bastard capitalist grinding the faces … (read more)

Posted: 16th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

It just ain’t tax avoidance folks

MUCH has been made in the past couple of days of the way that Facebook doesn’t pay any corporation tax in the UK despite selling £175 million of ads here. … (read more)

Posted: 12th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

The New Economics Foundation are insane

THIS won’t come as much surprise to close observers but the New Economics Foundation seem to have gone well past the woo barrier into entire insanity.
Radicals have long understood the … (read more)

Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

The machines are going to steal all our jobs!

LUDDISM is alive and well in the modern world. The idea that as the machines do more and more of the work then there just won’t be enough jobs to … (read more)

Posted: 10th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

Yeah, Facebook and Twitter are good, but better than sex?

THE Mail seems to be saying that checking Facebook and Twitter are better than having sex. Sure, the two little technology products are pretty good but seriously, better than sex?
Checking … (read more)

Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comment

The glory of green energy: only three years until the lights go out

WELL isn’t this an interesting how d’ye do then?  It would appear that we’ve a more than just minor chance of the lights going out in about three years’ time:
The … (read more)

Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

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