Tim Worstall

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Tim Worstall is a businessman dealing with the rare earth metals, a freelance writer, and Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute.


Economic Crisis

Obama: Slowly but Surely Stealing our Retirement Savings

Obama: Slowly but Surely Stealing our Retirement Savings

There’s an old story variously ascribed to any number of inscrutable Chinese men: how

Economic Crisis

Leave It to the Markets

Leave It to the Markets

If the Dow plunges a thousand points in 10 minutes, what should we do about it? Other

Eco-mania

How Earth Day Became a Totalitarian Movement Straight Out of 1984

How Earth Day Became a Totalitarian Movement Straight Out of 1984

Yes, it’s Earth Day again, the day we’re all supposed to think about Mother Gaia and

Commerce

Want to Pay Higher Taxes? Write Your Own Foolish Check

Want to Pay Higher Taxes? Write Your Own Foolish Check

No, you don’t have to be clever or intelligent to either get or be rich. Some achieve

Gossip

Ricky Martin’s Coming Out: Most Boring Celebrity Story Ever

Ricky Martin’s Coming Out: Most Boring Celebrity Story Ever

Good looking man who can sing and dance is gay: well, that’s a shocker really, isn’t

Commerce

Lighthizer and America’s Backward Trade Policy

Lighthizer and America’s Backward Trade Policy

What’s wrong with American trade? In short, the people America has negotiating its

Gossip

Kate Winslet Split From Sam Mendes, Guilty of (Best) Actress Syndrome

Kate Winslet Split From Sam Mendes, Guilty of (Best) Actress Syndrome

Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes: Hollywood power couple marriage ends up on the trash heap.

Economic Crisis

Quit Blaming Wall Street

Quit Blaming Wall Street

Much as it pains me to do so I fear that I must praise a left leaning economist. Dean

Sex & Money

How Megachurches Would Profit From Temple Prostitution

How Megachurches Would Profit From Temple Prostitution

Much of international discourse, international politics, is all about how they should

Commerce

Krugman’s Great Problem

Krugman’s Great Problem

I think we’ve found the secret of Paul Krugman you know. No, really, an excellent

Gossip

Snowdon-Jones Is Not British Royalty

Snowdon-Jones Is Not British Royalty

It’s hardly rare for social climbers on one side of the Atlantic to claim connections

Idiocracy

Political Risk Is Not Economic Risk

Political Risk Is Not Economic Risk

There’s nothing quite like a New York Times columnist for spouting gobbledegook on

Ephemera

Why A-Rod Can Play The Field (And Tiger Can’t)

Why A-Rod Can Play The Field (And Tiger Can’t)

There are some people who can carry off this having a girlfriend in every town thing:

Moolah

The Big Business Myth

The Big Business Myth

Would it surprise you to hear that the New York Times has managed an economics fail?

Low Life

Tame That Tiger!

Tame That Tiger!

“Tiger Woods in sex rehab clinic” seemed to be all that the newspapers of my native

Hack journalist discovers peak Tiger Woods theory

A distraught would be hack celebrity journalist today decried the way in which the

Holly Sampson and Tiger Woods

By now no doubt you will have seen that one of Tiger Woods’ alleged girlfriends is the

And Kalika Moquin makes the third of Tiger Woods’ affairs

It would appear that Tiger Woods might indeed have been putting on an away green. The

Trash

Tiger Attack

Tiger Attack

The tale of Tiger Woods and his car crash is entirely fascinating: not for the story

Silvio Berlusconi’s stamina

For those not quite keeping up with Italian politics there is an interesting little

Trash

Here She Comes…

Here She Comes…

I do have to wonder why these young women do this to themselves—make sex tapes and

The times they are a’changin’

More news on the David Letterman and playing bouncy bouncy with the staff story. Nell

Love

Stupid Human Tricks

Stupid Human Tricks

It has to be said that it’s getting a little difficult to keep up with just how many

Michael David Barrett

The FBI always gets its man: or so it is said. They certainly think they have got their

Trash

Tweet Fight

Tweet Fight

It’s often been pointed out that there’s a certain frisson, for a certain sort of man,

Demi Moore denies having had plastic surgery

In an interview with the French version of Marie Claire, Demi Moore denies ever having

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