Indeed. There was even. Concern that the time taken to form the Coalition government would cause a borrowing crisis. If Brown had been running a 4% surplus (say) then the GFC would have wiped that ou… (View Post)

Just because recent governments didn’t follow the economic cycle… Basically, we aren’t in recession. Yet. Recession will come. It always has. So the classic thinking is that while tax returns are hig… (View Post)

The friends I’ve made in the gambling industry are all in Gibraltar now. And before any says it - they are Scandinavian & Irish That’s the a feature of high skilled, well paid immigrants. They ar… (View Post)

Actually the fact that an AI was making Better-Than-Cornell boxes was what convinced Virek that the Ai had truly achieved something beyond humanity. Which is why it was worth capturing/bargaining wit… (View Post)

And no Aeron chair has ever advised the company to go all in on tulip bulbs…. And demanded a pay rise for said genius. After the bubble… (View Post)