Showing posts with label protectionism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protectionism. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 June 2020

"There is little money, and they are desperate" - much of British farming isn't viable, you don't change this with regulation or protectionism

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And yes, I have a beef with the intensive end of my industry, with its beak-clipping, tail-docking, permanent ‘in-housing’, zero-grazing,...
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Monday, 31 July 2017

In all this trade talk let's not forget that we're rich because we're free

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It starts like this : At the end of last year, a news story was published with huge implications for ‘international development’: a drop-...
Sunday, 4 September 2016

Quote of the day - on Trumpish economics and free trade

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Shared from Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek - the riposte to Peter Navarro, Trump's economics advisor from George Selgin, Professor of Econo...
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Sunday, 21 August 2016

Abolishing the Corn Laws again - the case against 'food security'

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It's not every day that you read an article saying that it was a mistake to repeal the Corn Laws : The situation created by the Br...
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Sunday, 24 April 2016

Free range chicken isn't healthier or more sustainable. It's just tastes better and costs more.

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I'm prepared to accept that free range chickens taste better. I also know that the way those chickens are bred means they cost a who...
Sunday, 3 April 2016

What links Peter Hitchens, John McDonnell and Donald Trump?

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**** The answer is a hatred of free markets, free trade and free enterprise plus a belief that the solution to our supposed economic problem...
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Thursday, 17 December 2015

The strategic maple syrup reserve isn't in the interests of producers or consumers

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Do we really need a maple syrup strategic reserve? Yes folks there really is a strategic maple syrup reserve and it's in Quebec. ...
Saturday, 7 November 2015

If you want a healthier, wealthier, happier Europe then vote to leave. I will be.

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The actual referendum is still a long way off. So far as I'm aware there's not yet a firm date so we can assume that it will be,...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Protectionism lurking in the guise of 'professionalism' - the elitism we expect from the Financial Times

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**** Hot on the back of this particular egregious misunderstanding of trade comes a further example - one that, as we find too often, festi...
Saturday, 5 September 2015

Quote of the day - on 'buying local'

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**** It is widely held that, by some feat of magic, buying stuff at higher prices because it is 'locally-sourced' or 'independen...
Tuesday, 9 June 2015

"Bloody foreigners" is a lousy case for leaving the EU - I fear this will be the core of the 'out' campaign

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**** European immigrants who arrived in the UK since 2000 have contributed more than £20bn to UK public finances between 2001 and 2011. Mo...
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Saturday, 29 November 2014

Multiplication and economic growth....

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**** Tim Worstall reminds us that there's something of a problem with the Keynesian multiplier: And if we look closer at this, and...
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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...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Procurement and local protectionism - how 'progressive' procurement will make communities poorer

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**** Writing in New Start (the house journal of the Centre for Local Economic Studies, CLES) Matthew Jackson, the Centre's associate ...
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: ...