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That [Sarkozy] appears clueless as to the functional benefits of speculation is not surprising – politicians are generally clueless. It’s his idea that a bunch of politicians could ‘reinforce the morality’ of anything I find truly gobsmacking! A mob of used car salesmen would do a better job… – Commenter Sean May 9th, 2007 | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)
 May 4th, 2007 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Is using perfectly legal methods of minimising tax right? The answer is no. – Andrew Pendleton, a senior campaigner at Christian Aid April 29th, 2007 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
April 24th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The threat posed by humans to the natural environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental policy – Fred L. Smith April 17th, 2007 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
It felt like a lion being savaged by Christians – Madsen Pirie, when asked how it felt to be the only one in a room offering strongly dissenting opinions from the usual statist consensus. April 14th, 2007 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Tyler Cowen notes an unsavoury fact about the Chinese economic miracle:
Cowen lifted the above quote from an interesting article that details how the regime in Beijing controls economic data coming out of the Middle Kingdom, which helps to prompt foreign investors to keep funding the great confidence trick that is the modern Chinese economy. The family connections of China’s super-rich and captains of industry must be considered alongside rosy economic statistics provided that expound China’s development. These filial links between the commanding heights of China’s supposedly private sector and its government betray the fact that China Inc. is the unholy alliance of a dictatorial regime and the application of corrupted ‘free’ market ideals. Such an arrangement will fail in due course, and will probably fail spectacularly since it has come this far. April 13th, 2007 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
Depending on the deals, could we see personnel queuing up to be arrested by the Iranians so that they could subsequently sell their story? April 12th, 2007 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
This is just too damn funny not to draw people’s attention to: [Y]ou have raised so many straw men in that comment you are probably eligible for some sort of agricultural subsidy. – Commenter ‘Squawkbox’ April 11th, 2007 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. – Ronald Reagan April 8th, 2007 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
The EU is going to ban ordinary lightbulbs because we are making the wrong choices and not buying the energy efficient ones. And who’s to blame for poor sales of the more efficient ones? The EU. April 2nd, 2007 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Civitas – otherwise the most authoritative and radical of modern policy institutes… has published the longest petition of intellectual bankruptcy I have read in years. I do most strongly urge David Green to withdraw this book at once and remove it from the Civitas catalogue. – Sean Gabb, reviewing Danny Krueger’s new book On Fraternity: Politics beyond Liberty and Equality March 31st, 2007 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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