At CiF.
On why petrol prices are what they are.
Entries Tagged as 'Timmy Elsewhere'
Timmy Elsewhere
March 18th, 2010 · No Comments
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
In which I solve the Greek debt crisis.
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments
At the ASI.
Why murder rates aren’t the gold standard of measuring crime.
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 14th, 2010 · 7 Comments
At The Times.
Of much greater importance, though, is what such lower limits will do to our opinion of the law in general. A pint at lunchtime could put you over that 20mg limit in the evening commute. A law that punished a man for driving after a pint of [...]
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
Yes, long term unemployment benefits do increase long term unemployment.
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
So what has neo-liberalism ever done for them?
Reduce poverty in Africa maybe?
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
On that idiocy of the government sending inspectors into chip shops over how large to cut the potatoes.
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 4th, 2010 · 5 Comments
At Takimag.
On the advantages of temple prostitution, the use of sex as a form of worship.
Agape, that good natured Christian love of all is all very well in its place but there’s no reason to posit a Sky Fairy as a reason to practice it. Nor to purchase Cadillacs, fine houses, and private [...]
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Timmy Elsewhere
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
Why State owned banks are a very bad idea indeed.
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
On the economic stupidity of Geoffrey Lean.
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A comment on a piece I did
February 27th, 2010 · 11 Comments
So I write at The Register on how manufacturing hasn’t declined. In the comments there is this:
“I worked here and….” “I have a mate who…” yeah right – your insights are so much more knowledgeable than the blokes who put the original figures together. Post 701196 – we may not make the [...]
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
At Takimag.
I’m certainly not going to try to criticise his economics…well, except for one area….for if we were to try and get into a dick measuring contest I’m the micro-penis and he’s wielding the Ron Jeremy.
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments
At The Register.
Manufacturing ain’t shrunk. So how come everyone is saying that it has?
My thanks to Simon Fawthrop who did the graph: beer is owed.
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Something I did for the ASI gets picked up by the Christian Science Monitor….
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
No, the Olympics do not have spill over benefits. Yes, we should still give Paris or Athens a call.
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments
At the ASI.
Is crime really caused by inequality?
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
Why what Ben Bernanke’s just done means the Robin Hood Tax won’t happen.
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Timmy Elswhere
February 15th, 2010 · 12 Comments
At CiF.
On the Robin Hood Tax.
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments
At the ASI.
We’re not running out of things.
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Timmy Elsewhere
February 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments
At the ASI.
We really might have a debt crisis coming….
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