The evidence is (from countries that didn’t react) that the sick and dying would overwhelm the hospitals. See Northern Italy. As @rcs1000 keeos pointing out - after that, countries that didn’t “lock … (View Post)

The reason why we have a soaring market in property is that the Government rations home construction. (View Post)

More that the scale of things changed. US potential productive capacity had been larger than anyone else on the planet for a while. WWII simply turbocharged them getting there. It wasn’t just destruc… (View Post)

The whole Republican Party is tarnished with a Trumpism. The Epstein tarnish is another set - which takes in a large chunk of both parties. Hence the calls from people in both parties - “Prosecute th… (View Post)

Yes, I have It’s from the genre of “Japan takes over the world” books. People extrapolated Japanese growth as inevitable and forever. Hence by lunchtime tomorrow they will run the entire world. They … (View Post)