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New year, new writers, new look?

Well, I guess it’s about time to try to end the hiatus here. I’ve personally been busy wrapping up at my old job and enjoying a break, but while I’m still ‘between jobs’ as they say, and moving to London soon, that’s no reason to not do stuff here.

Anyway, I’m hoping to invite a few more writers on board over the next few weeks and months, and get back to a few that expressed an interest before. The first new writer is already on board; John Franglen is another friend from University I’ve kept in touch with, studied economics, and is now studying design; he wrote a peace for his journal that tied in with a few of my thoughts on a popular issue, so I asked if he’s like to re-publish it here, a nice little explanation about why hypothecated taxes are, generally, a bad idea.

I plan to update the look of this place (I’ve been learning Wordpress theming) as well, but that’s a medium term goal, and also install a few plugins to support OpenID login and thus authors from other sites writing here without registering, which will be nice. In the meantime, if anyone would like to write the occasional peace, comment here or email; contact address is currently on the About page…

January 4th, 2007 Posted by MatGB | admin | one comment

Hypothecation - not a hypothesis on vacation, but about as much use

My first post on here is something that I’d been planning to write about on my livejournal for a while, but it took me a while (11 months actually) to get around to. The thing that spurred me to actually getting around to write it was someone saying something along the lines of the following:

I wouldn’t mind so much about speed cameras if the fines went towards road safety

And what he’s after is what economists call hypothecation. The problem is, while it might sound good, it’s really quite a bad idea

January 4th, 2007 Posted by draxar | economics, hypothecation | 5 comments