How to repatriate 130 EU laws
This week Open Europe published a new report that shows how the Government could repatriate 130 EU laws on crime and policing, including the controversial European...
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Via LearnLiberty – Social Cooperation: Why thieves hate free markets
Via LearnLiberty.org: And also: Society is concerted action, cooperation. Society is the outcome of conscious and purposeful behaviour. …...
Read this entry » The average family pays £656,000 in tax over their lifetime
The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) shows that the average family pays £656,000 in tax over their lifetime. After years of the state overspending...
Read this entry » Telegraph: “Will the great interest rate gamble pay off?” No.
Via The Telegraph, Will the great interest rate gamble pay off? By the time this month’s auction is over, the ECB will have doled out nearly...
Read this entry » The inflation or deflation song
Via “Merle Hazard”: I’m reminded of economist James Buchanan’s words: The market will not work effectively with monetary...
Read this entry » Wycombe Hospital – consultation events in February
Via Better Healthcare in Bucks » Events, the consultation events and roadshows for our local NHS services in February: Consultation event 2nd...
Read this entry » David Willetts, “Our university revolution has only just begun”
David Willetts writes in the Telegraph: Our university revolution has only just begun: Despite some dire warnings about the Coalition’s student...
Read this entry » Economics in One Lesson: V – Taxes Discourage Production
Every week over 26 weeks, I’ll be publishing a précis of a chapter of Henry Hazlitt’s brilliant 1946 book, Economics in One Lesson,...
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The Initiative for a Free and Prospering Europe
The Prime Minister today made a spirited defence of the Government’s position following the European Council meeting, in the face of ridiculous pantomime behaviour...
Read this entry »Is the EU maintaining the Rule of Law?
In their haste to use ever greater state power to solve the problems caused by excess state power, the European nations intend, it appears, to use an EU institution,...
Read this entry »In the WSJ: No Need to Panic About Global Warming
Sixteen scientists write in the WSJ: A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about “global...
Read this entry »Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built—and what we can do about it
Via Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built—and what we can do about it: [...] Taken together, the UK and US studies both account well...
Read this entry »Speech to Positive Money on money and banking
A speech on money and banking given to Positive Money’s conference last October (sorry about the cold!): See also my writing on economics here and for The...
Read this entry »Economics in One Lesson: IV – Public Works Means Taxes
Every week over 26 weeks, I’ll be publishing a précis of a chapter of Henry Hazlitt’s brilliant 1946 book, Economics in One Lesson, prepared by Michael...
Read this entry »The Government has more work to do against regulation
The British Chambers of Commerce has published a report showing that the Coalition still has a long way to go to tame the state’s mania for excessive regulation....
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