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Category: economics
Subtitle: Rupert Neate is a tosser, since I don't seem to have done one of my "is a tosser" series recently. Having assailed the nutters yesterday, I feel inclined to have a go at the handwringing going on at the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:09 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
There is a fascinating article from Bronte Captial about the Euro Fix. The story so far, if you've forgotten: the ECB can't be a lender-of-last-resort to governments, because it isn't allowed to (from memory, the Krauts say No). But in...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:56 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
Or rather, drops euro referendum plan but the effect is much the same. When the referendum was announced a few days ago, some thought he had played a blindingly good political hand. Which just goes to show that economists aren't...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:12 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
I was going to write something about "occupy wall street" - I even found their statement, and was going to analyse it. But really all I was going to do was snark. So instead I'll point you at Anarchists...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:13 AM • 94 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: politics
Ripping off Timmy: Laptops and mobile phones mean that at least a modicum of work can be done while travelling. So the value of time saved by fewer hours travelling should fall. In fact, we can almost certainly go...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:13 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
I despair sometimes at the stupidity of our politicians. More and more it becomes obvious that the less they have to do with running the economy, the better. The latest stupidity is from Clegg: Clegg calls for RBS and Lloyds...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 8:24 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Some fairly random thoughts on the budget. * VAT up to 20%: excellent. Calculating 17.5% was always so tedious. Score: +1. * Child benefit and public sector pay will be frozen - for no clear reason we (as in, our...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:49 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate snarking
Every cloud has a silver lining, and it looks like Zorita is jockeying for some of the silver: the Future of IPCC apparently is to morph into one of those nice International agencies which pay so well and are...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:23 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
This was an ask stoat question, and probably a fairly easy one, so I'll have a go. First of all, what is it? AF (ie, Airbo(u)rne Fraction, is the proportion of human emitted CO2 that stays in the atmosphere, the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:52 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economics
Ha. I wimped out of "bonii" cos I wasn't sure of my grammar. Anyway: Bankers are this year's terrorists, who were last year's paedophiles, who were the year before's witches. Which is to say, everyone appears to be convinced...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:26 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
