Tim Worstall

At CiF.
On why petrol prices are what they are.

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At the ASI.
In which I solve the Greek debt crisis.

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At the ASI.
Why murder rates aren’t the gold standard of measuring crime.

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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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At the ASI.
Yes, long term unemployment benefits do increase long term unemployment.

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At the ASI.
So what has neo-liberalism ever done for them?
Reduce poverty in Africa maybe?

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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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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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At the ASI.
Why State owned banks are a very bad idea indeed.

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At the ASI.
On the economic stupidity of Geoffrey Lean.

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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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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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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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Something I did for the ASI gets picked up by the Christian Science Monitor….

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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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At the ASI.
Is crime really caused by inequality?

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At the ASI.
Why what Ben Bernanke’s just done means the Robin Hood Tax won’t happen.

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At CiF.
On the Robin Hood Tax.

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At the ASI.
We’re not running out of things.

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At the ASI.
We really might have a debt crisis coming….

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