Those business that don’t do business? They do pay huge rents to the landlords. As well as lots of tax. So that puts up business rates in the area. Why do you think that so little has been done about… (View Post)

It’s one of them. Remember how the entire visa scheme for care homes turned out to be bullshit? That kind of scale. The other big on is holding rents high, rather than crystallising devaluations whic… (View Post)

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No, they don’t. Investment in the oil industry stopped, pretty much, under Chavez. They ate the seed corn. Restarting investment would require billions and take years to see results The existing well… (View Post)

1) Deliberately rationing land for building pushes up prices. 2) labour costs are being pushed up 3) regulatory costs have gone up massively - tons of paperwork, but no enforcement is cheap for the g… (View Post)