And that's a useful signal to the market. If the cost of cleaning up after doing X is high, maybe you don't want to do X after all. (And remember, not cleaning up after yourself isn't really a money-… (View Post)

There are plenty of examples of private sector incentive schemes being gamed in favour of the gamer, rather than the organisation that they work for. We just don't notice it as much because they are … (View Post)

On that night in 1980, for instance, ABC was the outlier, showing Republicans as red, having used yellow for the party four years earlier. During the network’s 1984 election coverage, Brinkley, by th… (View Post)

My favourite-least-favourite bit of polling, which shows that maybe it is time to end the disastrous democratic experiment; https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/the-publics-surprising-choice-of-tax-in… (View Post)

I'm not sure efficient is quite the word, as frugal. And some of that frugality gets in the way of efficiency. You would probably get more healthcare per pound by increasing the spend on admin staff,… (View Post)