Fishing

This is a good, balanced and non-technical video about why trillions in foreign aid haven't boosted development overall and have sometimes been completely counter-productive. https://www.youtube.com/… (View Post)

Pointlessly shredding what's left of Gaza is beyond any justification and entirely counter-productive. Going after the nuclear weapons programme of a mad, fanatical government that has funded more te… (View Post)

I'm not sure I agree with that. There were plenty of liars in public life before Boris - Blair/Campbell's dishonesty was notorious. Also, Boris lied or was wrong about trivia, like whether he obeyed … (View Post)

Remember, financial markets are like hysterical children (or some posters on this site) in that they always overreact to any given item of news. See Dornbusch's Nobel Prize winning 1976 paper for the… (View Post)

One of my formative professional experiences was looking at a graph of the Swissair's profits over time. They make $100m in one year, lost $50m the next year, and so on for a decade. Then they hired … (View Post)