US mortgage rates are fixed long-term, e.g. 25 to 35 years, with the ability of home owners to end early and refinance at lower rates. So it's not like a cliff edge like the UK where all homeown… (View Post)

No, I wouldn't be. Learning times table by heart would just mean I can calculate things marginally quicker. The hard part of proper maths problems is the logic behind it, not the numerical proce… (View Post)

145% tariffs on goods from China to the US. 84% on goods from the US to China. Both are huge. And I can only assume China will increase theirs further or take other retaliatory action. We may soon re… (View Post)

I wouldn't get out of primary school now on that metric due to failing maths. And I have a maths degree. Very worrying. (View Post)

Oil prices contine to fall - now the lowest since the first half of 2021. That will be helpfully painful for Russia. It will also undermine Trump's drill baby drill. And reduce costs in the UK. … (View Post)