Pine is not elm. (Nerdish joke from the 90s) (View Post)

Congrats @OldKingCole. It rained on ours 55 years ago, but that made the outdoor photos great. (View Post)

Zelensky gifts Ben Wallace 'Russian warship go f yourself' stamps. (View Post)

It is both. You start with an external shock (Ukraine, energy prices) and that is propagated through the economy by domestic factors (wage-price spiral, monetary accomodation etc). Economic policy co… (View Post)

It was. On the UK/Ireland desk we wrote the forecast that the IMF used and Peter Jay leaked after a chat with my boss. The beginnings of the UK asking for the infamous loan from the IMF in 1976. http… (View Post)