Tim Worstall

You might recall that I had a little snarl at the Guardian’s US economics and finance gal. I cleaned it up at Forbes too. She responded. Bless, eh?

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At the ASI. It may even be true that George Soros doesn’t believe in the EMH. But it’s most certainly true that the EMH believes in George Soros.

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At the ASI. In this case, we’re seeing that eliminating the marginal emissions necessary to stay under the cap costs less than £2.40 a tonne. Quite why the British government insists that everyone should pay £16 a tonne for it is known only to the more frenzied minds within it.

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At the ASI. Just how big was that North Sea oil money?

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At the ASI. Why do some nutters insist that the value a company offers is defined by its tax payments?

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At the ASI. Not so much what did Thatherism ever do for us but what did it do for everyone else?

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At the ASI. How we can tell that the industrial revolution did indeed improve the condition of the workers.

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At the ASI. Surreptitious Evil draws a chart for me. Why don’t we go back to the halcyon post war days when the personal allowance for income tax was 50% of average earnings?

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My editor says he likes this one. So you should go and have a look then. It has both John Harris and Tyler Cowen in it so you know it must be good. Plus it will make Polly cry.

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At the ASI: Why even temporary capital controls are a bad idea.

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At the ASI. Is it female education that increases economic growth or does economic growth increase the incentives to educate women?

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At the ASI. That mass employment in manufacturing just ain’t ever coming back.

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At the ASI. Yes, we are being “misled” by DECC.

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A longer version of earlier musings at Forbes. It is this that explains much of the round tripping in and out of Cyprus to and from Russia. Not taxes at all: but the desire for a stable legal system with honest courts and where property rights mean more than being in political favour. And I’d [...]

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At the ASI. Why we can’t have the same freedom to roam in the UK as they do in the Nordics.

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At the ASI. Of course Cyprus should go bust.

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At the ASI. Just a reminder that we create resources by inventing the technologies that do so.

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At the ASI. Aren’t we lucky to be ruled by those who have not the first idea at all about the merits of speculation.

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At the ASI. If it’s inequality rather than absolute levels of income that we humans worry about then why do so many immigrants move to places where they are at the bottom of the pile but have higher incomes?

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At the ASI. Why do all the people who say we should be more like Germany complain when we’re more like Germany?

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