Category Archives: Articles
How to Find a Job
We recently came across an article in Wired Magazine by Peter Thiel (of Paypal fame and early investor in Facebook) with some very interesting conclusions. Briefly, he mentions how the best and brightest of our society tend to shoot for elite universities like Harvard, where they then proceed to interact with people more or less [...]
The Best Example of Bad Graphs
Those of you in the UK (or elsewhere) who read the Telegraph may have noticed an article recently called “How the Fed triggered the Arab Spring uprisings in two easy graphs”. If you want the gist of it, here is the first graph: Now, as most economists learn, correlation does not equal causation. But let’s [...]
Tax Freedom Day UK
Yesterday was Tax Freedom Day in the UK, and for a word about what that means I direct you to Allister Heath’s editorial in City AM today: Time to celebrate tax freedom day. As he states: “to think that every single penny earned by every single person working in the UK so far this year [...]
Why Drugs Should be Legalized
The War on Drugs has been going on for many decades now in the United States and has produced exactly zero tangible results. Many of you will know that we tend to be libertarian free-marketers, and therefore believe drugs should be legalized, or at least decriminalized. For those of you who think we’re living in [...]
Taxation and “Fairness”
Do you ever get the impression that people see taxation as an end in itself, rather than a means to an end? We are struggling with empty state coffers: well just raise taxes. But for what? Why tax people at all? What is the money being spent on, besides front-line services? And why should producers [...]
