Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

But why tower blocks, Mr Mayor, why tower blocks?

We’ve spent most of the last century with the people of this country stating they’d like to live in houses with a nice front and back garden - and the planners, the authorities, insisting that they’re going to build flats, apartments, for everyone.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

A claim of no evidence

Note what the actual claim is though. In their analysis of whether environmental laws hold up building the government has not pointed to any academic evidence that it does so.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

So glad we’ve now got farming sorted out then

This isn’t what Baroness Batters - formerly head of the National Farmers’ Union - means to say but it is what she does say: Batters said: “One of the long-term and growing challenges to farming is that land is often more profitable for anything else, other than producing food.”

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

When de minimis is no longer minimal

The essential starting point is that tariffs are only one part of the costs of trade. Transport’s another, being able to communicate between buyer and seller another and it’s possible to compile a list as long as a tariff schedule of further such costs.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

The Guardian’s worried Argentina is going to work

Inflation means rising prices, which is hard to conflate with falling prices. On the other hand, if prices fall and wages don’t then real wages rise and poverty declines - which sounds like a fair enough plan to us.

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