Hardcover is finally available on Amazon (for May delivery). Looking forward to this one - especially given its relevance to the Canadian productivity debate.

Selling like hot cakes…..just picked this up at local Waterstones

A nice line in here, which I may have to steal: 'Economic models bring rigour to policy. Unfortunately, they also bring mortis.'

the warhammer community, where you create armies of dolls based on fanfic lore and then paint them by following makeup tutorials, is a very conceptually funny place to exclude women from.

Robert Saunders One viewpoint: Truss's ideas are stupid and economically illiterate, but they are no stupider or more damaging than the effects of Osborne and austerity. It was just the worst conceivable moment for them. Had she been elected in 2010, 2015 or 2019 she might have survived longer

#greatmomentsinindiehistory when Martin Gore confirmed to Dave Gahan that his cheese platter was separate from the rest of the band's rider

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The basic problem with 'can we persuade China to ditch Russia on Ukraine' is that the West has given every indication it'll turn Sauron's Eye to China the moment the war's done

Like China is not that stupid

this chart also needs to be part of the record every time Liz Truss tries to blame the BoE intervention and Andrew Bailey's speech. a lot of people with Syntagma Square nostalgia got excited and started shouting 'Central Bank coup!' but that's not what happened

(there was no 'government funding crisis' and it's quite worrying that an economics correspondent thinks there was. Truss was undone because of the very sharp moves in the core two and five year rates which affect mortgages.

the Bank of England is not a pensions regulator, and the question of 'why did pension funds have exposure to long-dated government bonds' is not one which requires ten years and multiple KCs to enquire into

I've said this in a few subthreads, so I'll say it here: not all central bank interventions are evidence of failure. The pension fund/LDI/gilts crisis was contained and reversed in an afternoon, and afaict probably at a profit to the Bank.

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Christonabike ... and any such scrutiny would inevitably conclude that the LDI 'scandal' was just a matter of professional investors making bad but legal decisions and being rescued from most of the worst consequences of their own foolishness by the Bank of England at a profit to the public?

Everyone go buy Dan Davies's new book:

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