Tim Worstall

Its certainly a valid objective. Raising the wages of manufacturing workers….I’m all for it, assuming that it’s not at the expense of others. You know, like price policies that benefit the urban worker at the expense of the rural (like, say, price caps on farm outputs).
So, how might you go about raising those industrial workers’ [...]

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Senators Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein intend to close the "London loophole" by empowering the CFTC to impose speculative limits on US traders who use London exchanges. The move is aimed at helping to prevent price manipulation and excessive speculation in the oil market.
The senators’ aim goes one step further than the CFTC’s current investigation [...]

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There are only 364 shopping days before Christmas!

This has been a public service announcement.

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So, err:

With those contracts due to expire at the end of this month the writers, who can earn anything from $10,000 to $200,000 per episode are arguing for a share of both income streams.
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Tim Adler, editor of TV magazine Screen Finance says one of the concerns will be that with many top British writers forced [...]

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How glorious this is and how silly of me not to have seen it coming.
So, the allegation is that the supermarkets are doing two things. Firstly, that they’re oligopolists of a kind, carving up the shopping market between them and there’s not enough competition. The second is that they’re driving the smaller retailers out of [...]

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