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)

I dunno BR: Seems to me that at least one of the major inputs to said industrial economy had an awful lot to do with slavery. I also remember reading a paper that suggested that the large chunk of th… (View Post)

This does sound like it might be an allergic reaction. Given the strength of your reaction I would think that it’s important to get to the bottom of it - sometimes allergic reactions can get stronger… (View Post)