That delayed feedback is something humans struggle to compute and go to quite hefty efforts to overlook. Hence the "cut investment, take the savings as profit, happy days" model of business… (View Post)

Depends on what happens in the rest of the economy, but probably enough to stop recruitment getting worse, and not such an insult that there are a load of strikes. Good management to get the process … (View Post)

As low as that? Because that seems to be where they are going. And not one of your dutiful British monarchies, let alone a bicycling Scandi monarch. (View Post)

Or, if you really want to hurt, the Star Wars Holiday Special of 1978. (View Post)

And at the moment, "hasn't worked yet" and "won't work" look pretty much the same on the ground. Which is all most of us can go on. (View Post)