Corporate inversions: What’s in a name? (video)

If you rely on the BBC for your diet of news, you probably will not have realised how embarrassingly haphazard and poorly produced the once universally praised BBC News’ output has become in recent years. The slow and painful decline …

Econ 101: maximum rage about the minimum wage (video)

On Tuesday morning, Radio 4’s Today Programme and a number of centre left papers ran a story about the ‘living’ wage.  Unfortunately, this important story was then swamped by the hacking trial circus later in the morning. The reality is that the …

Capitalism: serving God and Mammon? (video)

Fox News‘ and CNBC‘s squawking heads have a number of arguments that they like to marshal against raising the minimum wage; ranging from the following absurd gems: It’s just more government assistance; Minimum wage jobs are supposed to suck; and If the …