@guardianeco slimes New Zealand’s record on #climatechange @NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ

22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: , , , ,

https://twitter.com/guardianeco/status/634681114527797248

Some of the kidnapped ODA activists have been freed and can speak out at last!

23 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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The role of the spread of capitalism and globalisation in massively reducing extreme poverty just gets a mention, begrudgingly, but it’s better than nothing From a newspaper of record of the Left over Left.

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via The Guardian view on global development goals: heed the good news, but more needs to be done | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Creative destruction versus the Guardian: A £2-a-month levy on broadband could save our newspapers

20 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: ,

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A small levy on UK broadband providers – no more than £2 a month on each subscriber’s bill – could be distributed to news providers in proportion to their UK online readership. This would solve the financial problems of quality newspapers, whose readers are not disappearing, but simply migrating online.

via A £2-a-month levy on broadband could save our newspapers | Media | The Guardian.

Did The Guardian just come out in support of a poll tax? Most people have broadband, so it’s the same practical effect?

Guardian Media Group Cayman Islands Tax Dodge Company Still Active – Guy Fawkes’ blog

16 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics Tags: , , ,

GMG P + L

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1UHFEU7hr4

The Guardian was founded on a tax dodge as its editor explains:

In April 1932, a small boat sailing on Windermere was hit by a sudden squall and capsized. There were two people in the boat. One, Ted Scott, was drowned. His teenage son, Richard, swam to the shore and was saved.

The death of Ted Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, within months of that of his father, CP Scott, provoked a crisis at the newspaper which the family owned. It was a crisis to do with tax.

The Scott family was faced with the potential of a very large bill by way of double death duties on the late father and son – editors and owners both. There was a very real chance of the paper being killed or sold.

In an extraordinary act of public-minded philanthropy, the Scott family decided to give away their interest – worth more than £1m at the time – by creating a trust.

via http://order-order.com/2012/11/26/the-guardians-offshore-secrets-guardian-media-group-still-operates-caymans-company/

Climate change and nuclear bombs set ‘doomsday clock’ on verge of midnight | The Guardian

23 Jan 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: ,

Whoever is equating global warming with the risk of thermonuclear war and the Cold War either wasn’t around or wasn’t paying attention to world politics prior to 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

via Climate change and nuclear bombs set ‘doomsday clock’ on verge of midnight | Environment | The Guardian.

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