The picture is also complicated by taking the US as a whole is a bit like averaging all the stats across the everywhere from here to Turkey. Its a country of massive extremes in every which way. (View Post)

Oh that's certainly true. The US has always been a country of two extremes, and that has defnitely got worse with the hollowing out of things like the well paid blue collar jobs in the rust belt mini… (View Post)

In the UK we dodged the dotcom bust, but about 2004 the significant growth rates started to disappear and has never really returned at the rates we saw for any length of time. 2008 crash, austerity, … (View Post)

That is far too simplistic take and not the core issue behind productivity issues. But one difference between the UK and the US, the mindset of putting your capital to work particularly risky bets is… (View Post)

Bingo cards out....those with broadest shoulders....fairness....working people.....fixing foundations....£22bn blackhole....going further and faster....patrotic renewal..... (View Post)