"If it wasn't deliberate, it was monumentally stupid" I really like that. From economic policy to sucking up to China to housing reform to screwing up our education system, it should b… (View Post)

Being a landlord is precious little to do with tenants, it's basically a bet on the government being too cowardly and incompetent to sort out housing supply, so your property rises in value. For… (View Post)

"Having a heart" as you call it, presumably involves either wasting even more of other people's money, and there's none left, or importing yet more of the third world and dumping … (View Post)

Terrible news from the oil market. The price is now about $65 and Goldman Sachs is predicting it could fall to $40. So, given their forecasting record, I'm fairly confident we'll be paying … (View Post)

There are plenty - the ASI, the IEA etc. But they don't matter much. The solutions to our economic stagnation and decline aren't difficult or abstract. Simple undergraduate economics teache… (View Post)