Of course you can compare it to the current situation. If every country tries to protect exports via the use of retaliatory tariffs - as is entirely possible - then we will all get poorer. It is deep… (View Post)

If the US fails, everyone fails. When the Smoot-Hawley tariffs came into effect, other countries responded and world trade collapsed... everyone suffered. Relative outperformance was still shit. (View Post)

The Baby Name Data is available for download from the ONS website, and it's absolutely fascinating. So, "Muhammad" is the number one boys Muslim name, with 3,722 babies born with it. A… (View Post)

I think it's a bit of both: the share of Muslims has risen in the population, and at the same time other names have fragmented. (It's also worth remembering that Mohammed became the second … (View Post)

Not eating is also pretty bad for you. People who completely cut it out have pretty high near term morbidity. (View Post)