I also hope he gets better but we don't have time to suspend politics, the government needs to make a lot of important decisions at very high speed and the opposition needs to hold them to accou… (View Post)

I'd put that point more strongly: Markets provide information. In crisis situations, and life-and-death situations, it's really important to have information. Betting on markets like this i… (View Post)

And if you're gonna have one, at least wait until you're through the situation where you've shut down basically your entire production of everything, and the Chinese are the only place… (View Post)

There's no plausible full set of facts or outcomes that's going to show it was a good idea to faff around for weeks, let the Madrid game and Cheltenham go ahead and make up weird lies about… (View Post)

["How I would like politicians to behave" shoulds follow] I'm not saying they should demagogue. They shouldn't say, "[Unproven medicine] somethingiphen is effective effective… (View Post)