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)

My guess is this is partisan filtering on what you remember about the government restrictions. Most people if they sat down and worked through all the things the government did during the various sta… (View Post)