Continental Telegraphflipped into BusinessGordon Brown The TV License Is A Tax So Why Not Make It Progressive? continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall We’re always going to have a progressive tax system even if not every component of it is itself progressive. Quite apart from Adam Smith’s point that …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphPhilip Morris Philip Morris Are Just Such Terrors To Release An Entirely Legal Product continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Philip Morris is in the business of selling stuff that people willingly buy. Sure, those things are based upon the demon tobacco but then if that’s …
Continental Telegraphflipped into BusinessTelecoms Ethiopia’s Telecoms – Competition Is The Value Creator, Not Privatisation continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Ethiopia is in the process of privatising the telecoms monopoly, Ethio Telecom. There’s a certain amount of licking of lips at the money that can be …
Continental Telegraphflipped into EconomicsInflation The MMT Question – So, What Tax Rate Would Solve Zimbabwe’s 500% Inflation Rate? continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall As we all know modern monetary theory gives us the out against austerity. No government needs to be constrained on what it spends because it can just …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphAgriculture The Idiocy Of Sir Nicholas Soames Over Farming And Imports continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Sir Nicholas is the laddie who was described unflatteringly by his first wife. Well, that’s not unusual in such cases, there usually is a reason why …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphJoe Biden Biden’s Revealing Truth – You Ain’t Black If You Don’t Vote Democrat continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Not that Joe Biden put it quite and exactly like that but the effects of age are clearly leading to him revealing some home truths about the American …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphInflation The Laffer Curve Constraint Upon Modern Monetary Theory continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall A little thought about that Modern Monetary Theory. You know, this idea that government doesn’t actually need to tax in order to be able to spend. …
Continental Telegraphflipped into EconomicsIncome Inequality If Only Polly Toynbee Actually Understood Numbers continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Polly Toynbee wants us all to know that inequality is higher than we had assumed. This coming from a Resolution Foundation report claiming that new …
Continental Telegraphflipped into EconomicsGDP This GDP Stuff Really Matters, You Know? continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall It’s a commonplace among the mouth breathers these days that Gross Domestic Product doesn’t really matter. That economy, it’s all just money, for …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphRyanair Reasonably Enough Ryanair Doesn’t Want To Go Bust Through Chargebacks continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall There’s this thing called working capital, see? You buy something, you do something to it, you sell it. You have to pay the bloke you bought it from …
Continental Telegraphflipped into EconomicsIcon version of the Flipboard logoEuropean Union People Just Don’t Understand Economic Numbers, Do They? continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Or perhaps it’s just journalists who don;t understand economic numbers. Well, journalists and politicians then. An example here being the latest …
Continental Telegraphflipped into BusinessOil This Rather Shafts The Economics Of Scottish Independence continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall If Scotland ever were to go independent and float away on that sea of oil money it needed to do it several decades ago. Because there isn’t that sea …
Continental Telegraphflipped into BusinessAirbnb The French Version Of Airbnb Will Crash And Burn continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall This is not merely a prediction, this is a cast iron certainty based upon good empirical evidence. The French have decided that it’s just horrible …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphCrime No No No No No No No No. And No. Further, No. continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall The Home Office is a corrupt organisation, one that poisons all those who pass though its doors. This is not a new idea, The Times had me saying it …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphCycling Bike Commissioners continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall From our Swindon Correspondent:From The GuardianAmid the confusion that followed Boris Johnson’s televised announcement easing the lockdown, Will …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphIncome Inequality US Tax Rates Are Too High, Well Over The Laffer Curve Peak continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall We’ll all recall how so many are calling for much higher income tax rates on higher earners. Because inequality, of course. There are even political …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphLabor Economics The Resolution Foundation Discovers Labour Economics continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall The Resolution Foundation thinks of itself as a think tank, one that can – and does – uncover the secrets of how we should live our lives. The one …
Continental Telegraphflipped into BusinessWarren Buffett The Glorious German €643 Million Scam On Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Around here we’re rather aficionados of the scam. We have to be, having – well, one of us at least – worked in the Russian metals industry for a …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphPublic Sector Lads, We’re Going to Need a Libertarian Party continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall From our Swindon Correspondent:From the Telegraph Boris Johnson on Friday made it clear there was “no question” of freezing public sector workers’ …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphAdvertising We Need Your Support | Continental Telegraph continentaltelegraph.com - Richard Let us be frank: these are difficult times with uncertain outcomes. Advertising rates have dropped 80% and monthly donations are being cancelled. The …
Continental Telegraphflipped into EconomicsCity Politics Dougal’s Law continentaltelegraph.com - Alex Noble Dermot Mulroney played Father Ted for just three seasons before passing away, and is fondly missed – who knows what comic delights we have foregone …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental Telegraph Is It Necessary To Be Terminally Stupid To Write For The Guardian These Days? continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall Clearly, it didn’t used to be necessary to be terminally stupid in order to write for The Guardian as I’ve written for it. QED. Sure, it’s necessary …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphWomen's Health How Feminism Has Changed – Menstruation In International Rugby Players continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall This is not, or at least not particularly, a meditation on the subject of the headline, menstruation in international rugby players. It’s not, …
Continental Telegraphflipped into BusinessCentral Bank of Nigeria Both Indonesia And Nigeria Are Getting Their Mining Law Wrong continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall The big victim here is the Indonesian economy – the victim of an incorrect understanding of how mining and mineral processing works. The government …
Continental Telegraphflipped into EconomicsplayInflation MMT – Taking Your Money So Stuff Remains Affordable continentaltelegraph.com - Alex Noble Now The Magic Money Tree has taken root and is swiftly growing in our society, I’ve looked for a way to explain it to the average person.Einstein …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphTaxes Covid Windfall Taxes – Proof That The Public Are Idiots continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall It appears that the Great British Public would support whisking the money off those who have done well out of the coronavirus. That being useful …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphTeaching Covid-19 Education continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall From our Swindon Correspndent:From the Daily MailThe startling inequalities in lockdown learning are laid bare today after it was revealed that an …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphClapham (London) The Terrors Of Modern House Sizes continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall As is usual Torsten Bell’s little look at statistics – Torsten is at the Resolution Foundation doncha know – manages to miss the actual point of what …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphUnemployment The Heroes Act – Anyone Think 1,815 Pages Will Have Been Carefully thought Through? continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall The House of Representatives has just passed the Heroes Act – 1,815 pages of apparently emergency legislation. So, anyone think that anyone at all, …
Continental Telegraphflipped into Continental TelegraphIcon version of the Flipboard logoPersonal Finance The Banks’ Gross Profits On Mortgage Holidays continentaltelegraph.com - Tim Worstall It does need to be pondered over, just where does The Times get these stories from? For here they’re claiming that mortgage holidays are going to …
