Given you have four likes for that, I'll take that as the consensus then! Granted that would make rather more sense. (View Post)

Absolutely. See, for example, Neil Hamilton, 1997. (View Post)

Odd you should mention bimetallism. I was just trying to explain the concept of an allegory to my daughters (the oldest of whom is keen to audition for the part of Cheryl Stoat in the school producti… (View Post)

Yes, but if you wanted a bigger income in a low interest/low inflation scenario and weren't bothered about your capital shrinking, you could just chisel some of your capital and call it income. … (View Post)

All seems rather fucking academic given everyone seems to want to stop extracting oil from there. (View Post)