Tim Worstall

But you really do need to be reading this blog.

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I’m getting emails about how I an make $150 an hour……

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France faces 40pc house price slump France faces a property slump of Anglo-Saxon proportions as the frothiest boom in French history finally tips over, threatening the country with an economic shock just as austerity hits. The advice in such markets is tp pretty much ignore the investment aspects of housing and focus upon the consumptions [...]

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For someone who exists in an environment where their political views are in a minority, immersing themselves in an audience who are singing songs that articulate those views can be inspirational. To find yourself among other people in your town who share your views – people whose existence you may not have been aware of [...]

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Creative people, especially writers, are a funny breed. We are the only profession I know of who work for free. No coal miner, nurse, shipyard worker, accountant, or any other person with bills to pay works for free. But, that is what writers are often being forced to do. And the consequences for creativity and [...]

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I’ve got a lovely expensive chair me, does great things for back pain. I’ve slipped a disc again, and for extra fun I’ve managed to do something to the sciatic nerve so there’s pain in my leg that isn’t actually real (it’s referred pain from the nerve) and that doesn’t respond to things like heat [...]

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And yes, you who live where he ships should buy from him: The Stigler said… Do you realise that your blog is showing ads for other furniture makers? 6:21 AM SippicanCottage said… Marilyn Monroe don’t mind standing next to fat chicks. 6:45 AM That line is worth the purchase of a side table alone.

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She was very old when that awful day christened Black Friday took her fortune, just like the famine had taken her family. Her son sat with her on the simple wooden settee she still favored, like a pew in her own church. “It has St. Patrick’s clover on it, and to put a cushion on [...]

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The tragedy of it is that while the other dolls have been updated to their modern forms, so the drunk plumber has a mobile phone, the Jew remains stuck as he would have appeared in 1940, there being now too few Jews left in Poland to update the stereotype.

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Here. Not just that one post but the whole blog.

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Sunny thinks that: But parodies of films and music aren’t allowed under UK copyright law, unless you have explicit permission of the copyright owner. I didn’t know this either until this week. My response: That’s because it’s not true. You can parody anything you like. You just cannot include someone else’s copyright material in your [...]

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From one of our regulars here an attempt to show that cycling really is very libertarian. I wouldn’t say that I’m entirely convinced of that argument as we’re into in the streets and frightening the horses territory there. As is of course this but then with this I entirely approve.

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It’s such a gloriously fun occupation, isn’t it?

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Someone I know met someone we all know by reputation today. His verdict was succinct: Yes, pompous little prat.

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Worstall has appeared occasionally on the Zelo Street radar as he has cheered on Nigel “Thirsty” Farage and UKIP, denounced Warren Buffet as a “liar” for being of inconvenient opinion, and told how the CP, which operates train services in his adopted country of Portugal, has sent its rolling stock to the UK for refurbishment, [...]

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This was and is Ms. Solent’s point about the whole thing. Mr Sumner’s blog not only revealed his market monetarism to the world at large (“I cannot go anywhere in the world of economics…without hearing his name,” says Mr Cowen). It also drew together like-minded economists, many of them at small schools some distance from [...]

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So Sunny posts this graph about the workers’ wages. He then tells us that: show that right-wing ‘ideas’ on growth only involve attack workers wages So let’s just walk out way through this timeline, shall we? So we see a drop in the workers’ wages under Callaghan (Labour) then the workers’ wages start to rise [...]

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The narrative across much of the Westminster media, who know little about economics …..

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The Minimum Income Standard found that: basic out-of-work benefits provide well under half of the minimum income (net of rent and council tax) required for an adult with no children, and somewhat less than two-thirds for families with children. If the government goes ahead with this, the number of children in poverty – already due [...]

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Tsk.

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