Proper power does strange things to the brain. He'd be an oddity choosing to go after one term. (View Post)

A little OT but ... What is it to kid ourselves, maybe the metrics play as much a role than any qualitative measure? We pronounce these very Germanic economic rules around debt to GDP ratios, inflati… (View Post)

Can you really run a country with arbitrary economic rules that every chancellor for the last decade has been gaming? I think much of what we've taken as economic gospel is simply post facto justific… (View Post)

They don't have to sell it, they've five years to do stuff that they believe will change the country for the better. They can then be judged on the outcome. IMO the absolute worst scenario is they pr… (View Post)

Twitter was certainly closer to breaking even than it is now. I don't believe Musk cares about the company as a concern. For him it's an unfiltered Musk amplifier. From his phone to the globe and he … (View Post)