Simon Schama gives some fairly unconvincing reasons to be miserable at tthe end of 2009.
Archive for December, 2009
29 Dec
Brilliant Guardian article
A Guardian article discusses a real weakness of how artists portray finance and its consequences
28 Dec
What were your favourite blog posts of the year?
The blogosphere is now the essential reading medium for breaking financial arguments
23 Dec
Miserabilism: the Cato Institute doing my job here
The long term pattern still holds: life gets better. And 2009 could have been a lot worse. Though 2010 . .. .
21 Dec
Iain Dale reveals the depth of statistical knowledge of the denier class
I haven’t checked out Iain Dale’s CV, but I suspect it does not include a period studying statistics. Because he seems to believe in a recent post that taking one month every ten years from one location in the UK is a sufficient reason to justify statements about the effect of carbon dioxide throughout the [...]
18 Dec
Why I don’t think promising a VAT hike gets us out of the liquidity trap
The question of whether a VAT rise helps us out of our economic mess depends on your views of aggregate demand and supply
17 Dec
Lifting up the inflation debate
Ed Conway lifts the debate about inflation, which has many more dimensions than the Spectator crowd can understand.
17 Dec
Base effect: or, why the Right will be screaming “inflation!!” even as we go into deflation
Predictable effects over the next few months will see inflation ‘soaring’, even if the economy gets weaker. What will happen then?
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