Tim Worstall

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Entries Tagged as 'Markets'

Christmas Shopping Notice!

December 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

There are only 364 shopping days before Christmas!

This has been a public service announcement.

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Scriptwriters’ Strike

October 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Investigating the Supermarkets

October 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Markets