Indeed. The way to cut waste would be a slow, steady reform of the systems and process of government over years. Things like reducing the contracting pyramids - often work is contracted out 10 times … (View Post)

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)