economics

The Nature of the Market from Pick1 67 days old

In a reccent post I discussed the fallacy that a perfect system could be run by imperfect human beings. In the post I laid some of the blame for the ...

Perfection Is Impossible from Pick1 88 days old

[ ... ] Free market economics was also successfully adopted, or adapted, by a number of Asian states and territories, including Hong Kong, South Korea, ...

Queen And Country from Pick1 98 days old

The Sunday Times today reports that the Crown Estate, which manages the Queen’s property and assets, is set to pocket a £2.5 billion windfall from the ...

More On The Banks from Pick1 102 days old

Further to my last post, Kammo has an interesting piece on banking bonuses and the future of Northern Rock in his blog today.

Do Bonuses Matter? from Pick1 104 days old

HSBC and Barclays, two of Britain’s biggest banks, today announced strong profits for the first half of the financial year. Neither bank has taken taxpayers’ ...

G20 And All That from Pick1 224 days old

My experience of meetings is that they generally amount to a lot of talking and very little action and this week’s G20 summit appears to have maintained ...

Understand The Past, Embrace The Future from Pick1 281 days old

The Credit Crunch promises to be one of the most severe economic events of the century. Democratic capitalism is facing one of the biggest tests in ...

American Bailouts For American Workers? from Pick1 284 days old

[ ... ] the BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders argues that the global depression of the 1930s was caused by the adherence to the gold standard ...

The Illusion of Perfection from Pick1 290 days old

[ ... ] fallibility in economics. There was Evan Dando (him off of Dragon’s Den) and the final episode in his mini-series on the Credit Crunch which was ...

Suburban Musings from Pick1 294 days old

I have been quite impressed with Barack Obama’s first few days in office. Of course the outpouring of euphoria and goodwill amongst the multi-racial ...