Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 November 2019

Why we should say "thank you" to those billionaires

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The old ones are the golden ones: “We conclude that only a minuscule fraction of the social returns from technological advances over the ...
Saturday, 14 June 2014

A property-owning democracy is a great thing - we need more of it, not less

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.... Although many people bemoan right-to-buy, suggesting that it was a terrible thing that the government allowed ordinary working people...
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Oxfam - knowingly misleading us about wealth and income

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**** I don't take the view that Oxfam's charitable purposes prevent them from raising concerns about poverty in the UK. Indeed, yo...
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Friday, 16 May 2014

A comment about wealth...

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**** The ONS has published the latest figures on the UK's wealth. And this has resulted in a load of, mostly ill-informed, articles ei...
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Tuesday, 13 May 2014

A housing observation worth remembering: expensive markets build little housing

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**** Especially for people who think planning isn't most of the problem. Although the real world is a lot more complicated than tha...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Quote of the day: on the distribution of wealth...

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**** From Tim : If you've no debt and a £10 note then you, yes just you on your lonesome, has more wealth that the bottom 20% of B...
Monday, 17 March 2014

In which Oxfam deceive and Huff Post (and the Guardian) publish without question.

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**** Here's the headline: Income Inequality Soars With Five UK Families Wealthier Than Bottom 20% We begin with a confusion bet...
Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Oxfam are wrong (again)

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**** Oxfam are wrong. OK this isn't a surprise since we're talking about a large, wealthy, powerful organisation that dedicates...
Monday, 12 August 2013

Quote of the day...

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**** On the "gulf" between rich and poor : Actually Neill, never in human history has there been a smaller percentage of hu...
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Monday, 6 May 2013

A useful reminder of why we're so much better off than we used to be...

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**** It's those evil markets again: With thanks to The Whited Sepulchre for the link. ....
Sunday, 10 March 2013

Well Bishops, if you're concerned about poverty, do something...

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**** ...other than the trite - and frankly pathetic - option of writing a letter to the Sunday Telegraph. The Bill will mean that for...
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Five things to remember...

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**** From Counting Cats: These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read... 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity ...
Sunday, 20 January 2013

Labour - the party for the wealthy

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**** Or so it seems . Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said the Government had “fallen far short” of a fair soluti...
Friday, 28 December 2012

I'm not so sure Krugman is right here...

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Not about the end of growth but about robots - mechanisation, if you will : Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also re...
Sunday, 1 July 2012

So it isn't all inherited privilege then?

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**** In a really rather snide article describing various technology "moguls" as 'robber barons, a Guardian hack called Naug...
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Funding care - or how to lose friends quickly...

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**** From the Centre for Social Justice (so not to be sniffed at given its links to Iain Duncan Smith): ...we are consumed by a debate...
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Monday, 7 May 2012

The case for wealth...

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**** Over in the USA it seems that the case for wealth - and its benefits to us all - is being made : Conard picked up a soda can and p...
Saturday, 21 January 2012

Who are the undeserving rich?

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In today's Daily Telegraph, Peter Oborne returns to his well-rehearsed subject of the rich and the poor. Or more precisely the evils ...
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