Imagine a large town or small city that makes the world a better place by criminalising residential tenancies. Fairly well-off families would immediately snap up properties from ex-landlords, and the… (View Post)

Ultimately, landlords probably have nothing to do with the price of property, except that they allow renters without wealth to compete for housing, using their income, against households who do have … (View Post)

You could certainly claim to be Irish or Italian on that basis. (View Post)

Beto Kenobi. Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. (View Post)

I'm afraid we also have had the experiment of "spend more to save more" - it was in 2020-22, every western country participated, and its main impact was to raise inflation and interest rate… (View Post)