Johann Norberg with a troubling statistic. Russia’s GDP should have grown by 15% from the rise in oil prices alone. In fact, it rose by only 7%.

A new website/campaign against the tax financing of political parties, No Public Funding. As Peter Briffa points out:

The idea that you, me, and Johnny Taxpayer should be bailing out these incompetents, halfwits, and freeloaders is an outrage. I want political parties to go bankrupt.
The market-place operates in politics as anywhere else, and if they can’t give the public what they want the sooner they die the better.

Environmental Economics on something of a sea change (sorry). Finally, a sensible answer to the fishing Commons tragedy. Individual, transerable, ownership rights in a fishery. Now we just need the CFP to take note.

A Very British Dude (warning, sweary alert) on the true political divide these days, between the Statists and the free marketeers.

Andrew Leigh with news of an economic paper on speed dating. The subject isn’t really about money at all, rather it’s a toolbox, a set of techniques to help make sense of the world.

Cafe Hayek points out that contrary to most people’s suppositions, Americans are actually paying less for housing now than they were in 1981.

And finally, The Croydonian on the City Fathers of Milton Keynes. Planning for 1,500 years in the future apparently.

From Adam Smith Institute

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