Britain's productivity paradox
By deskilling and capital consumption we have become a lower productivity, lower wage economy
- 7 May 2013
No recovery? There will be blood.
Today's U.S. job report will end in the same calls for ritualistic bloodletting that Washington has become so used to
- 3 May 2013
Krugton the Invincible?
One side of the economic debate can declare victory and spike the football, but it’s not Paul Krugman and the Keynesians
- 2 May 2013
Why is David Blanchflower so scared of the truth?
With his affected rudeness and terror of reasonable discussion with anyone who might disagree with him, Blanchflower is a sort of pound store Paul Krugman
- 26 March 2013
Ground control to Major Krugman
Paul Krugman was all too happy to roast Paul Ryan for his love of Ayn Rand. But what of his own love for Isaac Asimov?
- 19 February 2013
Is anybody surprised that Krugman was wrong about U.K. fiscal policy?
Until Cameron and Osborne are willing to tackle the problem of big government spending, don’t expect much positive from the UK
- 24 January 2013
Krugman, Japan and the definition of insanity
The belief in Keynesian stimulus spending is the perfect example of Albert Einstein's definition of insanity
- 21 January 2013
What newspaper do you think the BBC mostly procures?
The BBC procures more copies of the Guardian than any other national newspaper, despite its small market share and continued decline. Quelle surprise!
- 13 August 2012
Loony Left: Miliband lectures on the morality of lecturing on morality
The week's madness courtesy of Jimmy Carr, Ed Miliband, Paul Krugman, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Greenpeace, Rio+20, Labour MEP Mary Honeyball, and Francis "Basil" Gilbert
- 22 June 2012
Gullible 20: How Argentina is making a mockery of the G20
Argentinian leaders have illustrated that a G20 nation can remain as such while continuing as a the epitome of reckless behaviour. Something needs to change
- 19 June 2012
The charts that could doom Obama
Obama is not alone in seeing his "stimulus" fail to stimulate but that will be of little comfort if he loses out in November
- 6 June 2012
You can't beat something with nothing - why Krugman and the Keynesians are winning
The centre-right must rediscover Austrian school economics or else fight the long retreat
- 31 May 2012
Loony Left: The BBC's New Statesman
The week's madness courtesy of Mehdi Hasan and the BBC, Russia, WWF, Seumas Milne, Richard Gott and Hugo Chavez, Greenpeace, and Morning Star readers
- 18 May 2012
The economic debate is polarized because the policy paradigm is changing
The great domestic policy challenge of our time will be to navigate the divide between those who accept the paradigm of change and those who seek to deny it
- 17 May 2012
Discord over Argentina leaves gaping hole for defaults across the recession-troubled world
The Argentinian Ambassador to the UK will be speaking at the London School of Economics on Thursday. But what will she say to us?
- 16 May 2012
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