George Osborne has been under immense pressure in the House of Commons. His move to lend £7 billion to Ireland is deeply unpopular. MPs rightly
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This letter in the Jersey Evening Post is too funny not to reproduce: From John Boothman. I READ with interest the attack by ex-Senator Ted
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Several people have asked me to do an update on what I know aboutprogress with the Crown Dependencies and the EU Code of Conduct. First,
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The Guardian has reported: The Irish bailout has failed. That’s the stark verdict from Zerohedge, the financial blog, after the euro slipped into negative territory
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George Osborne’s enthusiasm for Ireland has been captured for posterity. Very amusing:  

Day after day the economically illiterate, whether of the neoliberal or Austrian varieties, turn up on this blog blathering utterly false ideas based on utterly
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I like this take on Lord Young’s resignation: Lord Young of Graffham had no choice but to stand down as David Cameron’s ‘enterprise tsar’ having
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In 1819 David Ricardo promoted the idea of comparative advantage in trade. He used this example (which I have borrowed from Wikipedia in this form):
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Yet more evidence that the Channel Islands’ VAT abuse is having serious impact on UK small business has turned up on this blog: I think
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