Aren't rent controls one of the few things where almost all economists agree that they tend to produce bad outcomes? Pretty much the text book example of "popular but bad". (View Post)

Exactly. Doing business with Russia was meant to cement peace, even though many warned that Europe giving Russia leverage would do the opposite. (View Post)

If the EU was an organisation worth being a member of it would have been able to do two things at once, and it would have certainly noticed that it was becoming ever more dependent on a very unfriend… (View Post)

MTG has posted here? (View Post)

I thought Brady's "outstanding candidates" was hilarious. The quality of British politicians has never been lower in living memory. (View Post)