economics – Denseman on the Rattis

Formerly known as the Widmann Blog

The pound since I moved to Scotland

I always find it hard to remember the £/€ exchange rate because it’s always about stuff after the decimal point

(Also published on Arc of Prosperity.) I woke up to the crowing of the rooster and the smell of freshly

Hugo Rifkind had an article in The Times today about being a Xennial (too old to be a Millennial, too

Edmund Conway has posted a graph showing who the UK Government owes money to. Not only does the government owe

I’ve written about Howe and Strauss’s Generations before. It’s basically a theory that there are four basic types of generations

We often feel modern companies are on a mission to punish large families. Cinemas, budget airlines and many others charge

Companies have lots of advantages compared to real people. Amongst other things, they generally only pay taxes on their profits,

I must have overlooked this very interesting blog post by The Telegraph’s Thomas Pascoe (probably because the Scottish holidays had

After the introduction of the euro, the German politicians got worried that Germany wasn’t the best place to run a

Of course it’s not exactly news to readers of this blog, but this YouTube video illustrates the point even better