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Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

21st February 2022 Emile Woolf 0

In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Humpty’s subjective approach to verbal meanings is of [more…]

Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 1

14th February 2022 Emile Woolf 0

Any catalogue of economic legends would of course include the 2008 visit of Queen Elizabeth to the London School of Economics, when the country was experiencing an unprecedented housing market bubble based on the irrational [more…]

Every Folly Has Its Consequences

7th October 2019 Emile Woolf 0

The great Spanish master, Francisco Goya, expressed it concisely: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”. Today, wherever you look, insanity masquerades as rational thought. Lunatics flout their blatantly potty views as if they carried the [more…]

Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 1

Every Folly Has Its Consequences

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War Crimes Chapter 39 – Epilogue Two

Postcard from Lille, Part 29