Argentina is more about applying the classic IMF treatment, internally, than right wing populism. Note *removal* of trade and currency barriers, rejection of tarrifs etc. This is because the Argentin… (View Post)

The data security/privacy argument is deployed by the turf protectors. It’s horse shit. Collecting data, securing it, anonymising it and protecting it are all standard, solved problems. Just because … (View Post)

The problem is the attitude of the permanent structure of government. Who regarded many of the successes of pandemic as threats to their ordered world. For example, the dashboard team was disbanded a… (View Post)

No - both were funded. The classical approach got the bulk of the funding and biggest push. Because mRNA was being very actively developed by other organisations that had the best facilities for that… (View Post)

The Japanese war cabinet was deadlocked 3-3 This was after both atomic bombs, the Russians in the war and slaughtering the Japanese army. The Americans had stopped building submarines - because there… (View Post)