Tax from scratch
Sometimes in scientific discovery we speak of a theory ‘dying the death of a thousand modifications.’
Booming new towns
New towns always pose the problem that if they have not grown organically, where is the supporting structure of relationships, the interlocking chain of suppliers, and the businesses supporting each other?
Abolish the landlords!
So, we’ve now one political party explicitly committed to abolishing landlords.
Counter-productive policy
VAT on private education is counter-productive: It makes private education more expensive, pushing more children into the state system, which increases the burden on taxpayers rather than relieving it.
Just how will we have growth, ever again?
Tom Calver has a useful piece on where economic growth might come from.
Guess what? Yes, they’re picking losers again
Just to remind of the basics of dealing with climate change from the Stern Review.
Sportsfests are not useful investment, no
Morocco protests turn deadly as youth rage against World Cup.
Waste not, want not
Western economies are often castigated for producing too much waste. Maybe they do, because waste is a feature of the affluence that capitalism brings.
This did make us giggle Mr Chakrabortty. So there is that
Aditya Chakrabortty wants us all to know that the policies of Sr. Milei in Argentina are a disaster and that shows that the free market is all wet, even all wrong, in fact.
The Prince’s Reading Challenge
If I’d been asked in 1997 how I might encourage youngsters to read more, I dare say I might have come up with some worthy ideas.
Countries do not, in fact, trade
Taiwan has become the world’s biggest importer of Russian naphtha, a petroleum derivative used to make chemicals needed for the semiconductor industry, despite the fact that it has joined other sanctions against Russia and considers itself an ally of Ukraine.