Tim Worstall

It is, as Orwell pointed out, much easier to defend the liquidation of antisocial elements than to argue in favor of murdering people who disagree with you. If the reason people disagree with you is that they are evil, there is no need to think about whether they might be right and you might be [...]

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As regular readers will know I take advertising on this blog in the form of text links. Just as a little warning to other blogs that might be willing to take such advertising. One company offering such, “Magic Page Media” seems not to pay when such links are indeed added. At least, they’ve not paid [...]

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If you imagine a taxi without a human driver, then the main cost is fuel. And cheap fuel is what electric vehicles are really good at. So in the morning a fleet of EVs will meet various peak-time commuters and take them to work. Then during the day, some of the EVs will be shuttling [...]

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Bit of a surprise: The variety that this kind of economic competition inspires is also amazing. Nice to see they’ve seen the light. Consideration was received for the editing and publishing of this article Oh.

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Jenna is a freelance writer who most often writes about personal finance, business, and sometimes politics. She writes more at paidtwice.com. Consideration was received for the editing and publishing of this article Now I’m allowed to do that because I’m a capitalist bastard. But, but, isn’t Liberal Conspiracy above that? You know, their heart is [...]

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Mark Thoma is a professor somewhere over in the US. Professors over in the US face a certain amount of compeition from online courses: But traditional colleges are not going away, and the potential of online education to reduce inequality is overrated. So let us not talk about the relative abilities of tenured professors and [...]

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I really don’t like David Bowie. …(…)… He’s not a patch on Sparks, Roxette, Meat Loaf and Sir Cliff. Just my humble opinion! But you should perhaps be held accountable if you have no taste at all.

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He really is a toad and deserves both of these. Query: if the CPA benefits when non-CPAers invest in the CPA, why do you think that America suffers when non-Americans invest in America? That is, can you explain why the productivity of you and your colleagues at the CPA will rise if I make a [...]

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Sippican does his usual excellent job. Dave makes the same pick. And I also chose that very TV recording of Unsquare Dance to illustrate Dave Brubeck’s passing. As Ms. Solent once said about this whole blogging thing: “One way in which consensus opinion changes is when scattered individuals become aware that many others share their [...]

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Send them money!

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How do we escape the hysteria that threatens to erode public debate? The blogosphere, increasingly fuelled by toxic language, is hindering honest engagement rather than encouraging it

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Was Germany’s phenomenal growth partly caused by an absence of copyrights and patents? Der Spiegel thinks so. I’d paste it here, but it’s copyrighted!

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What a good catch, oh props, the internet is yours for a day.

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sunny hundal ‏@sunny_hundal @pollytoynbee it wouldn’t actually surprise me if part of job of some people like Tim Worstall was to comment on left wing blogs. Because, of course, someone who enjoys taking the piss out of illogicalities can only do so for money, eh? As a matter of fact, outside the big blogs (Con [...]

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No, no, thrice no. Anyway, if only because the idea of watching a car-crash at a taxi firm amuses me, I might now go and find this programme on iPlayer. It could be a car crash. It might actually work as well (my bet is on the latter). But the result is irrelevant. It is [...]

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But you should check it out.

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Sunny had a post up this morning which I thought was really rather amusing. London cable car to be governed by Dubai law   Readers, say hello to the scary new world of outsourcing. In eight days time the ‘Emirates AirLine’ will be open to customers in London. From midday, 28th June, anyone willing to [...]

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Siri: I am infinitely more likely to say “Malthus” than “Waffles”…

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What I quickly discovered was that I wasn’t alone. That there were others like you who felt the same. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. While I was a lone voice in the wilderness, you guys turned the site into a chorus.

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But you really do need to be reading this blog.

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