I'm happy to bet that the US Federal deficit will be larger post DOGE cuts than before if you like. (View Post)

Not a lot of people know this, but soon after Cnut ordered the waters to recede they did. And they only returned to the previous level the next day. (View Post)

Ignoring the "Democrats are awesome, yay!" line, this is an excellent piece on the Trump tariff strategy from Paul Krugman: https://substack.com/home/post/p-160404589?source=queue (View Post)

A while back, I saw a list of the 1,000 richest Americans. A shockingly large number of them were tobacco lawyers, who had brought class action lawsuits where they took 30% of the money (plus expense… (View Post)

I flew on it once: soon after they announced its retirement, BA did a big promotion, with some amazing fares, and I flew back from NYC to London. What was most amazing was that it only took about two… (View Post)