To be precise: she won the smallest of four (? three) claims against her chambers. She lost every claim against Stonewall, after fundraising under the banner “I am suing Stonewall”. As is (by now) co… (View Post)

I believe the evidence is that the most effective deterrent effect is the likelihood of getting caught & getting punished promptly thereafter. Unfortunately, the current government has chosen to … (View Post)

Honestly, if Truss had stood up and said: “my goal is that every criminal case is tried within a year” that would be something I would absolutely be 100% behind. The current situation is failing ever… (View Post)

Suharto? I have definitely heard this story & have a feeling it was somewhere around Indonesia? Edit: it was Sukarno: “Before starting the blackmail, KGB invited Sukarno in a small private movie … (View Post)

? MMT economists have never said that government spending can’t cause inflation. On the contrary, their models seem to be fairly explicit that government spending will cause inflaction in a fairly we… (View Post)