Showing posts with label prices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prices. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 July 2017

"They can pay more for their food" - Jay Rayner meets Marie-Antoinette

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I'm going to leave aside accusations of vanity, self-promotion and smugness because we are all guilty of such vices. I'm going to fo...
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Thursday, 30 June 2016

No Professor Lang, Brexit won't lead to food riots...

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**** Tim Lang, Emeritus Professor of Food Policy at City University thinks Brexit could lead to food riots: But given that the WTO rules ar...
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Thursday, 23 October 2014

Jay Rayner, millionaire food snob, tells poor families their food is too cheap...

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**** It has become something of a trend - millionaire cultural lefties popping up to tell poor folk that they are paying too much for stuf...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

A logical reponse to the obesity "epidemic"

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**** I know, I know - there is no obesity epidemic. But assuming for a second that the nannying fussbuckets and health fascists are right ...
Saturday, 11 January 2014

A reminder of the effect of protectionism...

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**** Amidst all the nannying fussbucketry about sugar, I stumbled on a consequence of making the evil white stuff more expensive: ...
Saturday, 14 December 2013

Diana Carney - another eco-authoritarian arrives to lecture us

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**** The eco-folk love a bit of middle-class judgementalism : While she admits she is tempted by low prices she argues people should be...
Sunday, 13 January 2013

So these posh lefties think food is too cheap?

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Yes folks that's right - the favoured Sunday read of the left-wing establishment thinks you all should pay more for your food: Here...
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Thursday, 8 November 2012

"Energy Stealth Tax Doubles EDF Price Rise" - the headline that wasn't!

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**** The renewable and social obligations placed on energy providers provide a masterclass example of stealth taxation. Today we're ur...
Sunday, 18 March 2012

Tim Farron - Communist

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Supermarkets are evil, they are driving down the prices for suppliers forcing poor farmers to go out of business. This must be stopped...
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Monday, 23 January 2012

Haggle! A comment on behavioural pricing.

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When you buy some Euros or Dollars for your trip abroad, you probably do a little research. You check out on-line financial information agg...
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Friday, 25 November 2011

That's what comes of fixing prices - shortages

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**** And it works for life-saving drugs too : Health minister Simon Burns blamed dwindling stocks of potentially life-saving asthma, ca...
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Friday, 23 September 2011

The "Tesco Tax" is just a levy on food prices

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**** Up in Scotland, as part of the SNP's mission of nannying fussbucketry and to raise a few quid, they have dreamed up something th...
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Monday, 4 April 2011

Dr Evan Harris is wrong about price competition - without it we'll have worse and more expensive healthcare

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Source: Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance Dear old Dr Evan Harris, former Liberal Democrat MP believes th...