Tim Worstall

8 responses so far ↓

• 1 Smidgeon // Jul 17, 2008 at 10:17 am

  Which comment are you talking about? The first one is “goto100″ at 8:06am, but that’s not a “taking apart”.

  Perhaps you meant “stevehill” at 8:49am?

  Tim adds: Yes, sorry, my mistake. I didn’t expand the comments when I looked at it.

• 2 GeoffH // Jul 17, 2008 at 11:59 am

  Yes, but notice how almost every other comment ignores or contradicts SteveHill’s expert analysis.

• 3 JuliaM // Jul 17, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  ‘Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!’ – typical Guardian reader

• 4 Stephen // Jul 17, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  Utter loons. I especially liked this one:

  “The US economy is on the verge of total systemic failure so I think its safe to say that if any changes are needed in the UK we should look for a more positive role model.”

  Wishful thinking?

• 5 dearieme // Jul 17, 2008 at 6:39 pm

  “a more positive role model”:
  how priceless to hate America yet spout Amero-drivel .

• 6 Davider Kohli // Jul 18, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  I am a professionally qualified accountant (an associate member of ACCA) and am researching insolvency. A search on the internet lead me to this and I have also read The Guardian article and Professor Sikka’s earlier work on insolvency.

  As part of my PhD work I have conducted interviews, so far, with 29 small company directors in areas such as restaurants, bookshops, printing, farming, etc.. In every case, the banks sent in an acocuntant who then became the liquidator. My assessment is that in 80% of the cases companies were unnecessarily put into liquidation. This very strongly supports Professor’s claims and his earlier research.

  Your comments “It’s delightful to see a Professor of Accounting taken apart quite so swiftly” sadden me. Are you conducting some personal vendetta as the comments on your page are not supported by the debate on The Guardian website.

• 7 Dan // Mar 30, 2009 at 2:07 pm

  “Stephen // Jul 17, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  Utter loons. I especially liked this one:

  “The US economy is on the verge of total systemic failure so I think its safe to say that if any changes are needed in the UK we should look for a more positive role model.”

  Wishful thinking?”

• 8 Dan // Mar 30, 2009 at 2:08 pm

  Sorry – hit submit without my comment on this post. I bet Stephen would like to retract his comment now!

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