Rather shocking, Bill Easterly actually says that Jeff Sachs is correct. About one thing at least.

Working for the civil service makes you ill apparently. Clearly we'd better fire a few hundred thousand of them. For their own good of course, you understand.

Or if said bureaucrats are going to act like this can we just shoot them instead?

Actually, perhaps we need to do more work on the appropriate torments.

Next week The Guardian will be running a series on corporate taxation. Here's why just about everything they say will be wrong.

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet but relabel a stimulus as "deficit spending" and it might not garner quite so much support.

And finally, why wait until June 15th?