Well, yeah, but it always felt more like a genius for getting elected than a genius for the actual job. It's an unfortunate failure mode for democracy that it tends to select more for those who … (View Post)

I get the impression that China has been doing more than the West in the way of making preparations so it isn't completely screwed in the event of a sudden wideranging economic disengagement[*],… (View Post)

Temporary high deposits due to a house purchase/sale are explicitly covered by the UK scheme already. (View Post)

I don't think they've had much of a polling bounce, so I guess not... (View Post)

I think several parts of this seem super-optimistic to me. In particular on 1: history suggests that the financial system does not in the long term "learn its lesson" no matter how bad the … (View Post)