The loading up with debt to financialise the companies came much later. The regulator fell asleep at the switch. (View Post)

The politicians blocked increased prices, because they would be blamed for them. The Treasury blocked borrowing because this would have added to the national debt. The easiest compromise was to pass … (View Post)

If only all official stats were dashboarded - and available as a JSON feed. But after COVID the dashboard team was hurriedly disbanded to prevent ideas like that happening. Because officials thought … (View Post)

We had this around the time of the Great Financial Crisis “The banks are doing vast amounts of pointless checkbox stuff. Not actually looking at real problems” “So you in favour of total deregulation… (View Post)

People in manufacturing say it’s ’leccy prices that have been killing them, the last few years. Consumers have been protected, Among other things, it blocks productivity improvement - install machine… (View Post)