Profits of doom
Readers who enjoyed my Cui Bono article earlier this week may be interested in this piece from Times Higher Education: Climate change is serious…
Improper Fractions
No arguments are to be looked at with more suspicion than those which, from the acknowledged impossibility of attaining to perfection, would infer that…
Cui bono? A dissent upon Mr Grantham
We’ll keep the Green Flag Flying In a recent polemic, the well-regarded investment manager and part-time climate activist, Jeremy Grantham, set out his version…
Economic recalculation disrupted
Over at the Library of Economics and Liberty, Arnold Kling has an article on recalculation (reproduced below). The two key things this otherwise highly…
The Captains and the Kings Depart – a dissent upon the Keynesian canard
“[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate…
USA enters the double dip
For those of you who have read AEP’s latest Armageddon story in the Telegraph, though the details of his ‘monetary’ analysis are, of course,…
Beware of Mr. Wolf
The Saving Grace In a recent editorial, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times – and one of the Tories’ newly appointed Wise Men on…
Martin Wolf and the Vampire Economy
So, in a recent editorial, the FT’s Great Thinker, Martin Wolf, has been fretting that we are about to undergo a period of what…
Material Evidence – bonds and new money
Sean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: bond yields, new money, state borrowing and the difficulty of making sound business decisions in the present environment. Read the…
Material Evidence – Recovery or crisis?
Sean Corrigan’s Material Evidence: the declaration of the end of the recession vs cries of crisis, the role of business spending, new money, the…