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Facepalm At Washington Monthly. Oh Yes, Again open.substack.com/pub/timworst... Basic innumeracy is a significant failing of the US journalistic classes

January 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM

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Never Let A Politician Determine Your Whisky
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January 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM

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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit To Justify Free Trade open.substack.com/pub/timworst... "That very agreement from the local food laddie that citrus is an argument for international trade is all we need as a justification for free trade in everything. For more is just as much a thing as a lemon is."

January 21, 2026 at 9:40 AM

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How To Know They're Lying About Glyphosate open.substack.com/pub/timworst... People who won't tell you the units they're using are lying. Just one of those stone cold facts.

January 20, 2026 at 9:41 AM

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But CEOs Should Make 100's Of Times The Average Wage open.substack.com/pub/timworst... If I don't point these things out doesn't seem to be anyone else who will

January 15, 2026 at 9:07 AM

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We Have To Reduce The Penalty For Drink Driving open.substack.com/pub/timworst... Not that anyone's going to believe me but if we lower the limit we also need to lower the punishment.

January 14, 2026 at 10:05 AM

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Idiot Wants To Ban The Point Of Prediction Markets open.substack.com/pub/timworst... Insider trading is the very point of prediction markets. Therefore a politician wants to ban insider trading on prediction markets.

January 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM

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So It's Not The Capitalists Taking Everything Then? open.substack.com/pub/timworst... Pretty simple, if the capital share is falling then the capitalist bastards are getting less, not more

January 8, 2026 at 9:33 AM

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Trump In Venezuela Isn't About The Oil open.substack.com/pub/timworst... It's amazing how many will shriek about things they've no clue of. Events just aren't about the oil

January 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM

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Investing pensions in council houses.....https://timworstall.substack.com/p/lets-invest-pensions-in-council-houses

December 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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Steve Keen Doesn't Get Marshall
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June 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM

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Real world income is now defined as unrealised capital gains. That's lunatic, obviously. Under that definition Elon lost $30 billion a couple of weeks back. Hell of a tax rebate then, eh?

Sarah Christopherson @sarahcgchris.bsky.social · Feb 20

Taking a short break from non-stop crises to read this new-ish paper from Liscow & Fox, and it is EXCELLENT.

For the very, very, very rich (the top 0.1% of wealth-holders, those with ~$62 M and up), roughly HALF of their real-world income escapes taxation under the current tax code. That's wild.

Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · Jan 22

Accounting for unrealized gains, income taxes are progressive below the 99.9th percentile, but are not progressive above that. Overall, accounting for unrealized gains makes the income tax look less progressive.

June 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM