If you want to make the bond markets much less important there is one way to do so - consistently run a budget surplus. (View Post)

They are democratic English speaking Common Law civilised countries you sociological donut. They are better examples. Geography is meaningless, culture is not. We have far more in common with Canada … (View Post)

Yeah it would be absolutely awful being in the same category as nation's like Carney's Canada or Albanese's Australia. (View Post)

Dwarfed by the disadvantages that it is a tax on mobility while people who stay put avoid it entirely. Move 5 times in your career for work and pay the tax every time while someone who does not never… (View Post)

Not really, not from that quote in bold at least. Everyone knows there is a rivalry and why. Simpson went much further than that, assigning a [false] consequence to effects of who wins the match. (View Post)