Tim Worstall

Self-organising collaboration seems to offer the only way, he argues, out of our current impasse where the market has failed… What an extremely strange thing for anyone to say. Given that markets are self-organising collaboration……

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Michelle Smith’s got a new gig – and her boss found her from reading the Daily News Astonishing, isn’t it? Newspaper passes on useful information shocker……

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From 1980 or so onward, however, that system gradually broke down, partly because of bank deregulation, but mainly because of the rise of “shadow banking”: institutions and practices — like financing long-term investments with overnight borrowing — that recreated the risks of old-fashioned banking but weren’t covered either by guarantees or by regulation. The result, [...]

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Once I’ve found out I’ll try remembering him…..

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Thousands of council tenants who make profits by illegally sub-letting their homes will face tough new measures to be announced by ministers this week. No, it’s not that bit although that does grate a tad. For as we all know social housing is the least liquid part of the housing market. We know quite well [...]

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At the ASI. The logical error at the heart of the new paternalism.

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The government is to unveil radical proposals that would give football fans first option to buy their clubs when they were put up for sale and require clubs to hand over a stake of up to 25% to supporters’ groups. This is, quite simply, theft. Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U, they’re worth around the £400 million [...]

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I’ve said this before but why not again? Norwegian* has a lovely word, “utepils”. It’s that first beer outside of the spring. The first time that you can, without it being as cold as a witches tit, or perhaps more appropriately, as cold as a broomstick ventilated gusset, sit outside and actually enjoy a beer [...]

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Or rather, Labour’s just made forcing people to recycle illegal. Via The Devil we get to the new act: 71Slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour (1)A person (D) commits an offence if— (a)D holds another person in slavery or servitude and the circumstances are such that D knows or ought to know that the [...]

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Katie Price is selling her home to escape haunted sunbed

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I notice that right-wing critics of the nanny state never call for the legalisation of drugs on the grounds that adults should be free to choose to be addicts or not.

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At the ASI. Celebrating the good thing Gordon Brown has done.

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The number of independent schools judged to have breeched minimum standards set by the Government has trebled, new figures have revealed. It’s “breached”….we’re talking about breaking, not giving birth. But examples of those rules being broken? School cooks have not been formally trained in child protection. Pupils and parents had not been supplied with details [...]

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I hope Tim knew he was being absurd writing what he did, but all he wrote after the above suggested he did not. It’s unsurprising that throughout the entire left he is treated as a buffoon. Oh, a buffoon who knows economic theory quite well. But a buffoon because of his complete inability to exercise [...]

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I have a feeling that Richard doesn’t in fact understand what he’s talking about here. Has he learned nothing as yet? This the old paradigm of the Washington Consensus writ large. Haven’t they noticed it was this that failed? It was this that created the crisis. So, let’s see what the Washington Consensus actually says, shall we? The consensus included [...]

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At the ASI. Personal reasons for backing today’s Human Achievement Hour

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For the sake of Germany and the wider eurozone, Angela Merkel must stop playing domestic politics with the Greek issue. German politician must stop doing what the German electorate want. So much for democracy then….

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To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on a vast and remarkably [...]

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So, amongst the vast readership of this site are there any chemical or mining engineers? I’m hoping to find someone who can give me a back of the envelope estimate. I’ve got a waste stream. Got a method of extracting the material I want from it. Know what that material is worth and the market [...]

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