Neoliberalism is another name for free marker economic policies. The 'freedom' in question is not one for citizens, but for corporations, as neoliberalism has three fundamental aims, all convenient to business: lower taxes, lower input costs, and lower wages. Read more »
The good news is that Blogotariat has been entirely stable since moving hosts and unique visitor numbers have been doubling for the last three months. This means that post rankings are developing a proper life of their own without my input.
I do spend time everyday doing minor cleanups of html - mostly to fix broken or bad layout, and a lot of that is from the many non-standard ways that people use when formatting their blog posts. From an aggregation perspective all the superfluous code created by wysiwyg blog editors needs to be removed as far as possible. Read more »

Money is funny. Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
A slackbastard appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Read more »
Fresh updates from the world of emissions trading: Read more »