economics

A way with words (2) from bushytailedfox 261 days old

What's the difference between an under-developed country and a developing one? The answer of course is in the cultural baggage we attach to the words. ...

You can have a mortgage, if some unelected faceless bureaucrat agrees from bushytailedfox 262 days old

Norther Rock is about to start lending again, but only if the EU Commission give permission. So, the British Government, whom we elect, cannot lend ...

The right to make a profit from bushytailedfox 265 days old

There's a website called The Pirate Bay to provides a search engine to help find video content to download using Bit Torrent (a file sharing application). ...

Protectionism didn't cause the great Depression from bushytailedfox 281 days old

I've just been reading Stephanie Flanders' blog on the BBC news website; she's the BBC's economics editor. Her argument today, and it's a strong one, ...

TINA - there is no alternative from bushytailedfox 343 days old

"There is no alternative", that's what we usually get told if we start criticizing our economic system; we live in a competitive global economy and we ...

Playing a different game from bushytailedfox 345 days old

I was quite serious yesterday about not playing the economic game we are stuck in the middle of. It's twice now that globalization is causing global ...

December 1974, the month democracy (in Britain) died from bushytailedfox 349 days old

[ ... ] to monetarist economics, where the Government's role in governing was subordinated to the whims of the financial market; you can have many ...

That's another fine mess you've gotten us into Stanley! from bushytailedfox 355 days old

I'm surprised, and a little depressed, by how many political arguments from the 1970's (and earlier) seem alive, well, and unresolved today. Take this ...

Labour ins't working? from bushytailedfox 365 days old

Read this?  http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/12/unemployment-jobs Remember this? Something tells me it may feature in the next Tory adverts ...

A cut above the rest from bushytailedfox 365 days old

Why are (UK) tax cuts suddenly in vogue? Labour and the Tories seem to be playing the game of "my dad is bigger than your dad", as if they were in a ...