Especially if we were negotiating the cost of hiring the Tesco negotiators with the Tesco negotiators. (There must be an updated Gilbert and Sullivan plot in there somewhere.) (View Post)

Because the effect of means-testing the state pension is that most people won't find it worth saving for their retirement at all. That just stores up a massive social and economic problem for a few d… (View Post)

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)