a No one has ever answered The Big Question. If a nuclear war turned Slough into a radioactive wasteland, inhabited by cannibal zombies, who would pay the CGT on the uplift in property values? (View Post)

Not a prime target. Just on the main target list. More that once you have 22,000 deliverable warheads, why not? You can kill NZ as a first world state with a handful of warheads - what's left is agri… (View Post)

a Significant* rent controls are actually an awesome idea. If you want to reduce the availability of property to rent. 100% success rate. *In a few places they have vestigial rent controls that don't… (View Post)

Though they can go the other way. When a critical freeway collapsed in LA (quake), Schwarzenegger (Governor at the time) let a contract to get it replaced. Faster got the company more money - but the… (View Post)

If they said that, then my advice is to buy canned goods*, firearms and a bunker in New Zealand. Yesterday. *Don't forget the entire rack of can openers from the store. (View Post)