I find the idea that borrowing a huge but smaller than expected sum gives us "wiggle room" bizarre. It's merely a stay of execution, we aren't out of jail. (View Post)

It's one of those useless aggregated statistics a bit like GDP, or GDP per capita, like I was explaining last week, which tells you very little about what is happening to the average person. Wha… (View Post)

Don't be a berk. When people made similarly snide comments about Libya it turned out that UK special forces had arrived in the country before the complaints even started. You can be certain that… (View Post)

If I had to hazard a guess there is probably a much copied page about letters in the names of famous people, as it turns up multiple times in the dataset with perhaps minor variations the model is he… (View Post)

I think he's right there. I expect 2024 to be absolutely nuts, making 2016's Pepe memes look quite quaint. (View Post)