Tim Worstall

Here.
How about the same for the ninth, but without the final clinch?

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Excellent news:

I finally received my new stick and crutches, thank you to everyone who donated, it’s nice to be able to walk down the street without all the clacking sounds I used to get with every step and the whistling of the wind through the adjuster holes. Having them also improves my posture, which helps [...]

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Yes, yes, I know ethics is a county near London which is all that advertising companies know about the concept. However, we do seem to have a company that is at least attempting to approach the concept of getting bloggers to advertise to their readers in an ethical manner – ebuzzing.
Start with the PayPerPost concept [...]

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The Business.
Market and government failures and the point of speculators.
 

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Madeleine Bunting:

If Bill Clinton was the first black president, could Mitt Romney be the first Mexican-American to enter the White House as First Lady?

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She’s responsible, and she’s taking measures to fix her problem, but the article also subtly drives home the point that there’s something deeply fucked up about our usury laws that we allow something like a 30% interest rate to even exist. (The article reminded me to pay off a balance sitting on my credit card, [...]

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Excellent piece by Mick Hartley here.
Further, who knows the connection between this and this?

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A chorus of jeers greeted the extra-vagant launch of Astérix

That’s actually rather apt: extravagant we all know, but extra vagant suggests an excess of vagueness, which is I think what the critics were really trying to say.

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You really do have to hand it to our MPs and Lords: knowing arses from elbows is clearly an advanced manouvre for them.

All artificial colourings in food and soft drinks should be banned, a parliamentary committee urged yesterday in a report on the effect of diet on the brain.
The associate parliamentary food and health forum [...]

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Patio heaters could be banned by the European Union over fears that they are contributing to global warming.
Euro-MPs will today vote on energy efficiency proposals to phase out the sale of the popular gas-burning appliances which are increasingly found outside bars, cafés and restaurants since the indoor smoking ban.
Fiona Hall, a Liberal Democrat MEP, has [...]

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Last night it emerged that a friend of Henry’s, Michel Pratte, is also on his payroll. The 23-year-old Canadian, a regular companion of Henry’s at London nightclubs, is said to be paid £11,500.08 as a research assistant, while studying at the London School of Economics.

And which nightclubs might those be?

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A reminder of why we actually have a legal system, judges and all:

The High Court judge said that “on the face of it” social services acted unlawfully in taking the baby away from the 18-year-old mother without obtaining a court order.
Mr Justice Mumby said that the officials involved in the Nottinghamshire case “should have known [...]

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At the GI.
What’s globalisation doing to income inequality?
(Yes, Jim, I do use the Milanovic you recommended.)
 

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At The Business.
A note from Portugal and more EU silliness.

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Well done Paul:

I think the best political year I can recall was probably 1977, the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. It was a period of benign and enlightened government under Jim Callaghan and David Steel…

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A free colonic.
No, really….

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Over time, increases in hours of work per capita have created the intuitively plausible notion that there is less time available to pursue social interactions. The specific question addressed in this paper is the effect of hours of work on social interaction. This is a difficult empirical question since omitted factors could increase both hours [...]

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Ethics isn’t everything. Bring back the Clintons.

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Figures reveal that only 37 per cent of 132 primary care trusts in England still have contracts for homoeopathic services.

Only another 37% to go….

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But perhaps more important than either of these is the series of poor decisions which stem from the government’s lack of managerial ability and its consequent blind faith in the two false gods of IT and management consultancy. A Labour government has chosen to pour unprecedented billions on the private companies providing both, and much [...]

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