I think the intention was to create some distance from the story, rather than to shut it down. It's not as though the demand for an investigation is going away in the US. (View Post)

. The clue is in the name. Which gives it a spurious mathematical authority which it simply doesn't possess. The Laffer Preference for Lower Taxes doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it ? Th… (View Post)

Crime fixer caught by BBC offering to erase £60k fines on migrant workers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3kevkl3pdo A man at the centre of an organised crime network has been secretly filmed t… (View Post)

It ought to help, at the cost of more inconvenience for the law abiding (see also banking, or even dealing with a solicitor). What's dispiriting is that it's been fairly obvious for years that this i… (View Post)

And that is only at a given point in time, of course. Economic conditions change all the time, and the number of confounding factors is essentially infinite. An analogy might be trying to model turbu… (View Post)