Economics

2024-10-07: Google's creators envisaged that advertising-funded search engines are a bad idea (but made one anyway)

2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.

The case for public funding of UK political parties: One possible alternative to the current system of most funding coming from donors.

Almost half of UK political donations come from private wealthy ‘super-donors’: Maybe letting very wealthy people effectively buy elections isn’t exactly ideal for democracy.

2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million

2024-08-22: The IFS's interactive 'impact of tax and benefit changes' tool shows the cruel impact of the post-2010 tax and benefit changes

2024-08-01: Once again, managing a government budget is not like managing a household budget

2024-06-20: This month’s The American Prospect magazine has an absolutely - possibly surprisingly - …

2024-06-18: Apparently I was not the only person to rather take advantage of all-you-can-eat deals, at least in …

2024-06-08: A calculator to quickly compare the energy costs of using different types of appliances

2024-04-17: Spotify's new minimum stream threshold means most tracks no longer pay the artist

2024-04-07: Is the UK housing crisis more about who owns the houses rather than how many houses there are?

2024-03-07: From The Guardian: Britain will go into the next general election with taxes at their highest level …

2024-02-05: 📧 Reading the Bits About Money newsletter.

2024-02-04: TIL: Buckingham Palace pays a council tax bill of £1,828 per year. That’s lower than 46% of …

2024-01-05: What it takes to be in the top 1% of UK income tax payers

2022-12-12: Cookie paywalls: would you pay money to not be tracked on the web?