Category Archives: Economy

Strategic Ignorance in the US Primaries

The Republican Presidential Primary debates are frightening. From the audiences at these events, we’ve had the booing of a solider because he is gay, the cheering of the idea of someone dying because they didn’t have health insurance, and the … Continue reading

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On Benefit Fraud

People often equate benefit-fraud with the separate issue of the state giving people too much in benefits. Continue reading

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Fallout

My photoset on Flickr, showing the economic fallout of the volcanic erruption… Continue reading

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Health Tourism

I have put in a poorly worded Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health to find out what statistics are available. What do you think? Continue reading

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Beyond Nations

Further examples of how companies and communities are now operating on a scale that dwarves the efforts of some nation states Continue reading

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Think local, act local?

Its almost as if those people who are actually spending the money to make this work are participating in a leisure activity, rather than an everyday participation in a market that could sustain the local economy. Continue reading

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Notes on the VAT rebate

We just keep spending on a whim until we reach a certain level. This threshold will be different for each person: It might be the point at which the bank account reaches its over-draft limit, or when the sight of the balance falling into single figures induces panic. Continue reading

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