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Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
... became a miserable circle of discussing raising carbon prices on select industries and then returning the tax through direct subsidies to industries that will be most harmed by the price rises. Poorer ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
Category: Blog/Analysis
... healthy tax collections would continue indefinitely and subsidies would finance the shortfall. Now the market has fallen and it has fallen on both the wise and corrupt together. There certainly are ... Thursday, 22 October 2009 -
The end of the line for wild tuna
Category: Blog/Analysis
... state subsidies and is considered critical for job creation. The ICCAT limit for the annual blue fin tuna catch is 22,000 tons. Conservationists believe the actual take to be four times higher, closer ... Thursday, 03 September 2009 -
America's new environmental laws put pressure on global carmakers
Category: Blog/Analysis
... has translated into billions of dollars in subsidies to promote local manufacturing. From export promotion subsidies in South Africa, to state-owned champions in Malaysia, to major tax breaks in the US ... Thursday, 13 August 2009 -
Picking winners has unintended consequences, sometimes they cause gas
Category: Blog/Analysis
... subsidies to promote a particular choice which appears to be wrong, and destructive. Getting politicians to now back down from this particular choice, and get environmental lobby groups to admit they ... Thursday, 06 August 2009 -
Is the Tata Nano recession proof?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... through local subsidies and tariffs. It also stifles the need to innovate until, when new products eventually smash their way through, the difference between the products is so great that entire industries ... Wednesday, 10 June 2009 -
The Contrition of the Bankers - the Rules can't save you now
Category: Blog/Analysis
... raising tariffs on some imports, but that increases prices and hurts the poor. Subsidies are used to promote motor manufacturing, but leads to global overcapacity and lower profit margins for some companies. ... Tuesday, 09 June 2009 -
Iceland, Crisis and the Wrong Way to Recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... There isn’t one. Instead of declaring an end to free-markets, the only hope for governments is not to pledge vast borrowings, but to cut existing state subsidies and entitlements and find a way ... Monday, 02 March 2009 -
Stimulating economic development by promoting price discovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
... money supporting it. No-one is going to try other products as long as they're getting free money to produce wheat. The subsidies supplied by the Ethiopian government to flower sellers merely overcome ... Tuesday, 17 February 2009 -
Taxing the poor so that the rich can buy expensive cars
Category: Blog/Analysis
... reductions in assistance. This is particularly so when allowance is made for the likely deadweight costs of raising tax revenue to make up the revenue loss associated with ACIS subsidies.” The ... Wednesday, 19 November 2008 -
The charity of dumping
Category: Blog/Analysis
... who feel that the subsidies their rivals are receiving are anti-competitive have a few mechanisms at their disposal to take task with these issues. Granted, they don’t always work very well - as ... Wednesday, 05 November 2008 -
Prediction Markets for the Poor
Category: Blog/Analysis
... about what is possible. It is impossible, for instance, to “buy” a job (much as governments try through direct subsidies). You can buy a house, a car, land, a factory, better roads, public ... Wednesday, 15 October 2008 -
Trade Liberalisation isn't only between Rich and Poor
Category: Blog/Analysis
... The World Bank estimates that cutting tariffs could save consumers some $ 125 billion a year. The difference between tariffs and subsidies is straightforward. If your favourite grocery store cross-subsidises ... Friday, 03 October 2008 -
The Remarkable Power of Remarkable People
Category: Blog/Analysis
... else in their nations, yet they have disproportionate impacts on their societies. Countries that can attract the best and the brightest do better than those who chase them away. Subsidies and tariffs ... Wednesday, 27 August 2008 -
Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
Category: Blog/Analysis
... from hundreds of rands a month for dial-up services to as little as R 45 per month for broadband now. Bandwidth has exploded as prices have dropped. This has come about not because of state subsidies, ... Wednesday, 09 April 2008 -
Higher food prices mean downgrading that Turkey to a Chicken
Category: Blog/Analysis
... prevents this: subsidies to farmers. The rise in food prices has also taken place against the backdrop of rising subsidies to farmers to sell their crops for the production of biofuels. Countries (such ... Tuesday, 19 February 2008 -
The spectre of loyalty over ability
Category: Blog/Analysis
... through market weight or legislative clout. Whenever external competition emerges – as with China and textiles – our companies beg for subsidies and then fail. Yet there are ideas. Buried ... Tuesday, 18 September 2007 -
Black Swans, Cost Overruns and Industrial Tariffs
Category: Blog/Analysis
... nations should cut their agricultural subsidies to allow poor nations to sell their goods competitively. The G8 Summit has just announced that they intend spending US$60 billion on health and development ... Tuesday, 14 August 2007 -
Atlas Shrugged at 50
Category: Blog/Analysis
... a counter-offer: if the government is serious about this then they must provide them with subsidies to make up the difference. The recipients of subsidies are complicit in extending the range of government's ... Sunday, 29 July 2007 -
Dave Bullard and Graham Knox: "We can't walk on water so why not try wine?"
Category: Blog/Analysis
... were preparing for a violent showdown with their government unless they were offered a guaranteed minimum subsidy. EU subsidies are already so vast that they have contributed significantly to the current ... Wednesday, 20 June 2007
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