"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 be thi… (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 fift… (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 them in ou… (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 at least $… (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 teaches that mar… (View Post)