The post masters were told that the Horizon system /was the accounts/. Unless they kept their own parallel accounts, they had no way to demonstrate that it was wrong. And it was wrong, on a regular b… (View Post)

But the reason the housing is so expensive is because there’s a shortage of the stuff relative to population growth. So, again, we have an unearned transfer of wealth from those who don’t own propert… (View Post)

This is not a good thing, given that the average US buyer gets a whole lot more square footage for their $. In the UK the older property owning generation is holding the next hostage & forcing th… (View Post)

Yes, you look at a country that’s as wealthy as the US & their life expectancy & wonder what on earth is going on. Last time I looked, IIRC a good chunk of it is people killing themselves wit… (View Post)

Personally, I think the real questions people should be asking is why both the UK & European growth rates have been so terrible since 2008, whilst the US has gone from strength to strength. Lack … (View Post)