Also the crew that gave us stagflation and took us to our economic nadir with the IMF bailout and the Winter of Discontent, at least Margaret Thatcher put in years of hard graft and temporarily rever… (View Post)

It didn't START in America - economic optimism has been crashing since Labour started talking down the economy and then kicked the private sector in the balls with their disastrous budget and employm… (View Post)

My surmise would be that the number of housing starts fell as the economy slowed from the roaring economic boom of 2021-2 and as the pent up approvals from the pandemic ran out. Whatever, it's a dism… (View Post)

So much hysteria about chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef. There's actually more oestrogen in an egg than there is in 10 kg of steroid treated beef. I've lived in America for a couple of ye… (View Post)

As ever with people who write about economics without studying it, completely wrong-headed. If you subsidise a sector through cheap finance, you'll simply get capital that's inefficiently used, and a… (View Post)