If you import a prime age worker you may increase economic growth. But you may well NOT increase per capita growth. It's the latter that counts and we need to be much more concerned about the differe… (View Post)

We English speakers are amateurs at pretentious long words though. When we have words like Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwe (the widow of a captain of the Danube Steam Boat Company) i… (View Post)

Ideally keep any form of government as far away from anybody else's money as possible. The list of disasters is endless but we never seem to learn. (View Post)

Hold your rejoicing. All the front page linked to says is that Trump is "seeking legal advice", not that the deal is being reversed. Even if he gets favourable advice and files something, d… (View Post)

And they were made because of Labour's disastrous and complacent handling of the economy, and in particular financial regulation, which decimated our tax base and from which the economy has never rea… (View Post)