... which is ironic given how much Americans drivel on about the checks and balances in their crappy constitution. (View Post)

Those three examples show the opposite of what you think they show. The war in Ukraine has shown us that we need a strong economy to be able to afford food if prices spike unexpectedly, which is deli… (View Post)

Price of farmland in the south-east once it gets planning permission - £2m/acre or more. Price of farmland as farmland - maybe £5k-10k/acre. Even the most economically unaware dimwit must see what th… (View Post)

If only there were a mechanism that persuaded individual profit-seekers how to allocate land, labour and capital to achieve the best results for themselves, through increased revenues, and society, t… (View Post)

Personally I'd say our decision to go to war with France and Russia against Germany in 1914 was where it all started to go wrong. It killed almost a million men over some inconsequential tracts of Fl… (View Post)