Of course the stimulus has helped to some extent, but the tight real estate market in the big cities is I think far more a product of absurdly tight planning laws, or "zoning" as Americans … (View Post)

But why if they don't want to? Who are you to nudge them to do so? You reduce individual welfare, and therefore social welfare overall. And what insight do you have into the marginal value of th… (View Post)

Off topic, I am back in the country after a couple of months on the US west coast, mixing business with pleasure. Here are some random observations, some of which I've made on here before: - the… (View Post)

A good and persuasive thread. I think the recent decision to raise taxes would be much more persuasive if there weren't so much unnecessary spending going on. But any government worthy of suppor… (View Post)

I never said they were equally poor, merely that it's an utterly uninspiring choice. (View Post)