Economics Roundtable

That American recession/depression. You know, it looks like the falling dollar is boosting exports, curbing imports and taking up the slack. Just like, umm, economic theory would predict.

The most important question in climate change science is, what is climate sensitivity? As several ...

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The ASI's annual bloggers event is coming up next week, on Wednesday 16th April. This year's theme is is 'Curbing the crap artists'. Guido Fawkes will tell us what to do with crap politicians, Tim Worstall will dish the dirt on crap journalists, and Samizdata's Perry de Havilland will ...

Gordon Brown, our increasingly beleaguered prime minister, seems to have a rebellion on his hands over the abolition of the 10 percent starting rate of income tax.

When he announced the measure in his final budget as chancellor hardly anyone on the Labour benches noticed, so bowled over ...

86. "We should extradite any citizen accused of crimes by overseas prosecutors."

The readiness of British governments to act at the behest of overseas prosecutors has been a disturbing development. It has included extradition to face trial abroad for actions done in the UK which are not criminal here. ...

More selections of those old Tory posters mentioned above (or, erm, below, given the reverse order of blogs....). Here and here. There's some thought that the immediacy, the force, of the messages has declined over the years.

Here's the numbers on one country that has successfully ...

Sweden is often depicted as a Social Democratic paradise. However, her welfare state has achieved less and cost more than most believed. The point is that wealth distribution and flat income have not significantly changed after Sweden expanded her welfare programmes during the 1950s and 1960s, when workers enjoyed lower ...

I must say, I think this is an absolutely marvellous advance. We pay for the BBC, after all, so we really shouldn't have any of that elitist nonsense about a factual reality or anything. No, news should be presented to show the world as "you" believe it to be, not ...