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You have too much Government when you can investigate a dead fish in Texas

I THINK we’d all agree (OK, you anarchists at the back can shut up) that we do in fact need to have some government. Making sure there’s only one Army … (read more)

Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Why the Euro bailout just won’t work

AMBROSE Evans Pritchard over at the Telegraph has a great little piece about why the basic method being used in the eurozone bailout just won’t work. It’s here and is … (read more)

Posted: 5th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

The stupidity of new banking regulations

IT’S said of Generals that they’re always ready to fight the last war. That they would have been just perfect at fighting WWI in 1939, that in 1914 they knew … (read more)

Posted: 4th, October 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Is it necessary to be dim to write on feminism for the Guardian?

WE’VE another of those interminable pieces about how there just aren’t that many women in the tech industry. The actual reason goes entirely unmentioned: which is that, on average, men … (read more)

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

Guardian get 50 loons to explain climate change

TO celebrate the fact that we’ve only got 50 months to save Gaia from being boiled as we sleep in our beds The Guardian has invited 50 extremist nutters serious … (read more)

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

Why are they being so stupid about minimum pricing for booze?

I’VE been saying, as have many others, for years now that this idea of minimum pricing for booze just won’t work. For it’s illegal under EU law:
David Cameron’s plans to … (read more)

Posted: 28th, September 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment

The real problem in Spain is the provincial governments

WE’VE a very interesting little stand off developing in Spain. It’s just all rather more complicated that it at first seems.

OK, so we know that the country can’t afford to … (read more)

Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Why we don’t want a mansion tax

SIMON Jenkins manages to get it right today. Which is a real surprise for something about tax in The Guardian.

This Lib Dem idea of a mansion tax is simply stupid. … (read more)

Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

No, living in Bexhill does not make you live longer

NO Living in Bexhill does not make you live longer. It just seems that way, har har.

In fact, people who live in Bexhill On Sea do seem to live a … (read more)

Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

There’s science, bad science and then there’s the gays and drugs story

THE Daily Mail tells us that the gays are taking more drugs than the rest of us:
Gay people are seven times more likely to take illegal drugs than the general … (read more)

Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment

Why that GM gives everyone cancer paper is rubbish

SO, yesterday I pointed out that no scientists worth their salt were prepared to back the research paper that claimed that GM corn produces cancer in lab rats.

Given that the … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, September 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment

GM foods will give huge great horrible breast cancers

GM foods give you breast cancer. That’s the takeaway message from a new scientific paper just released. That GM corn from Monsanto and the Roundup herbicide that it is meant … (read more)

Posted: 20th, September 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment

Why George Osborne is screwing with updating benefits

WHY is George Osborne screwing with your benefits? Because he can, basically. But the how is more interesting:
If the move is implemented, many benefits would be frozen for two years, … (read more)

Posted: 19th, September 2012 | In: Money, Politicians | Comments (2)

Should female doctors get paid less than male ones?

SHOULD  female doctors get paid less than male ones? No, this isn;’t some tired variation on the standard patriarchal nonsense. It’s actually quite an important question. You see, many female doctors, … (read more)

Posted: 18th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comments (3)

The oil sands that are destroying Canada – well, it’s not so bad

WE hear often enough that the oil sands extraction plants in Canada are destroying vast areas of the countryside. The usual shout is that they’re destroying an area the size … (read more)

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

Punishing the Bankers: Peter Cummings punished for making loans – oh the irony

OOOOH, the irony, it’s just too exquisite.

So we’ve finally actually punished a banker for the mess that they created. Peter Cummings from HBOS:
Peter Cummings, the HBOS banker whose division lent … (read more)

Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Reducing Union Power Increases The Workers’ Wages

THIS might come as something of a surprise but reducing the power of unions can indeed raise the workers’ wages. This isn’t the point that Hopi Sen was intending to … (read more)

Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment

A small note for idiots everywhere on commodities

WE’VE been told, again and again, by the likes of the World Development Movement, Oxfam, Action Aid and all the rest, that more speculation in commodities leads to higher prices … (read more)

Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment

The TUC talks bollocks. Again

YES, it’s the TUC meeting again so obviously we’re going to have a report out or two that spout bollocks about what’s been happening to the economy. This year’s entry … (read more)

Posted: 11th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comments (2)

Lies and more lies on setting a minimum price for alcohol

DAMN, I do get pissed off with people trying to lie to us so that they can change the law. We’re supposed to be the people who decide how we’re … (read more)

Posted: 8th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

The stupidity, it hurts – the mainstream media gets it wrong on food speculation

I FIND it to be actually physically painful when I see some ghastly lefty nonsense being picked up as the obvious truth across the political divide. We expect the comies … (read more)

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

Bribes are no longer tax deductible

BRIBES are no longer tax deductible. This is a bit of a change:
“Expenses incurred while committing legal violations, including providing bribes or kickbacks, are not recognized for the purposes of … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2012 | In: Money | Comment

Guardian’s Larry Elliott gets numbers wrong on meat eaters

YES, yes, of course we should all go off an become vegetarians. Far too many people about eating too much meat and the only way we can feed us all … (read more)

Posted: 3rd, September 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comments (4)

Apple’s suing Samsung: Yes, =again

WE’VE only just had the news that Apple has won big by suing Samsung over certain patents on mobile phones. What seems to have been missed is that there’s another … (read more)

Posted: 31st, August 2012 | In: Money, Technology | Comments (2)

The LibDems have a bloody good idea: the accessions tax

WHO knew that they had it in them? The Lib Dems that is, being capable of offering up a good idea?
Replace inheritance tax with an “accessions tax” on beneficiaries of … (read more)

Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Money | Comment (1)

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