It's a Full Time Equivalents number, generated by multiplying the total number of government employees by hours of productive work, and the adjusting for the total number of working hours in a y… (View Post)

Here's the thing: if people don't feel safe, they don't go out. Tourism is reduced. People need to spend money on security, rather than on things that generate economic returns. The re… (View Post)

I don't actually think it would be particularly hard to reduce crime significantly. I don't think it requires some radical reshaping or our criminal justice system. I think it merely requir… (View Post)

Errr, I don't mind. (View Post)

I'm not sure that's necessarily true. Trump has - to use a finance term - a very high discount rate. He's not looking at what might harm him next year, he's looking at what might … (View Post)