Retired Operational Researcher/Statistician/Economist.
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Last Notes npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR add to that he's also been getting UK government subsidies for his INEOS chemicals company, while investing that money abroad and closing Grangemouth refinery in Scotland. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR though somehow much what is currently growing in the economy, such as AI data centres and arms manufacture, at the expense of other useful things such as jobs and living wages for people, is not exactly what most of us would have in mind as something we want even more of. But this is their, and Starmer and and Rachel Reeves', wet dream of unsustainable growth. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR canals and rail for commerical use coexisted for a long time. And some canals were actually converted to use for railway lines. Commerical use in the UK almost stopped after the WW2, but some of that was because we were the first to build canals and initially only built narrow canals, on the continent they started later and build wide canals that are still in use . npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I doubt that data centres built for AI and full of GPU with very limited lifetimes and mostly powered by polluting gas turbines will have any consequential use. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR well I'm sure he had his reasons - clearly the extent of his actual involvement in Epstein's crimes must be enormous and he thinks politically unsurvivable for a President. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I had a new hip (having fallen off my bike) about two years ago at RDE and they were excellent. Of course mine wasn't elective so no waiting. Exeter developed the Exeter Hip about 50 years ago. The ward I was on - Robin Ling - was named after one of the inventors. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely the "underlying policy logic" of the MPC is a consequence of "The Government sets us a 2% inflation target" and that the current inflation figure is 3.8% (and a Bank Rate of 4%)? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR as a (retired) Operational Researcher while I agree with the inapplicability of JIT to hospital bed and staff provision, JIT was intended as a way of managing production process without having to hold large buffer stocks of inventory between processes. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR to be honest I didn't think there is much wrong with how eye testing works in the UK. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Also noting that this source gives the current Microsoft p/e as 34, somewhat different from the F/T chart. Perhaps a bit more digging is required? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR wondering why they've included Oracle from 2000, but not Oracle today. It's current p/e is 44. So now higher than all the other big players except Tesla. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Paying generators, such as gas fired, for the cost of just sitting there not generating is what the Governments Capacity Market is for. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR maybe it's time to stop chasing unsustainable GDP growth, particularly when it seems to involve investment in stranded assets such as AI data centres, oil and gas exploration, nuclear power generation, grey hydrogen and CCS? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR at present we already pay gas, and previously coal, generators to be there to run idle, it's called the Capacity mechanism. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR confusingly mortgage interest costs are not included in the inflation measure (CPI) that the BoE is targeting. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR meanwhile the Bank of England seems to have other concerns. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely the OBR forecasts include government policies? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and as is spelt out in the article it's very clear that privatising some services lead to crap services for patients and is eye wateringly expensive at the same time. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR on the other hand, many people are missing out on benefits they are entitled too, clearly at odds with this idea that poor and disabled all know how to game the system. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR "Now the key issue is why the change, and what impact that will (and perhaps was intended to) have on the conduct of the review & the conclusions reached." npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I remain amazed that PFI can even be considered. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR they are still green lighting expansion at the regional airports too. We don't need more airport capacity, full stop. For environmental reasons we should be taking positive action to discourage air travel whichever airport is uses. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR also, although not a target for the revue, still no action to remove the cliff-edge design of the carers allowance, where a small overpayment leads to the whole payment being withdrawn, rather than just the amount overpaid. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR And £12k per person is also £24k if you are a couple. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and, on the other side of the ledger, by the amount of unclaimed benefits. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR so under this plan presumably all migrants will also get income tax and national insurance exemptions too? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely it's ideological? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR puzzled by the rows with blank country names in the chart, even though they have life expectancies shown. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR so, relative to other countries, the UK is not doing well for either sex. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR dose have a chart showing the difference in life expectancy between the UK and other countries for males? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR it's not clear to me how simply putting more of the ONS's bodies to work on it is going to help with the Labour Force Survey. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR if the purpose of the inflation measure used in these negotiations is to include housing costs and to be reasonably accurate both the government are using the wrong measure. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR good interview, though at the end he rather sidetracked around the issue of 'pregnant people' rather than pregnant women in the BBC guidelines by just criticising a journalist for eye-rolling. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely the biggest threat to the Labour party is the authoritarian right wing faction that's its current excuse for leadership. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR John Deere tractors aren't cheap, to buy or to repair. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR that's old news, membership is now over 150,000. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR public services make up 20% of GDP, and measuring their productivity remains a challenge. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR a lot of us have old (mine's 10), but still serviceable, cars doing little mileage (we don 5,000 miles/yr) and it's hard to justify investing in a large expensive lump of metal with a battery we might have difficulty charging. My 10 year old car also has physical controls and an actual handbrake and is not connected not the internet. This doesn't mean that I don't think all new cars should be full EV for those that can justify a new car. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and, of course at least in respect of Trumps support for fellow ultra right winger Milei in Argentina, it doesn't seems to be working out very well. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR well goes to show how unrepresentative your #Fediverse readers are. According to Mt Altman most people just love their ChatGPT girlfriends. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR further investigation finds: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I'm guessing that's not the rate for all even moderately wealthy foreign residents, most of whom I expect earn less than the current €200,000 pa. surcharge. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR taking you to be talking about LLMs (Chatbots) when you say "AI" they are actually worse than a distraction from the climate crisis - hyper-investment in data centres to run the awful things is actively bringing it on. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR and then there's now CIA ops (widely reported): npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR you should have used a Samsung! npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR private ('Public') schools and grammar schools were there when I went to school in the '50s and '60s. More so in some areas than others and I'm not sure this has changed that much. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR short of police manpower today? Maybe we could have cancelled a few football matches instead? Very disrespectful playing football on such a day. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR McSweeny and Blair getting Starmer to come out in favour of something is clearly the kiss of death for a policy. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR so, given that (I understand) we already attribute notional rent paid to themselves by owner occupiers and include that in GDP can I also assume that we include the value of both paid (whether notional by Carers Allowance or when a carer is employed) and unpaid care in GDP as well? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely if Scotland were to be able to take a more civilised and sensible approach to asylum seekers any greater security on the England/Scotland border would be to stop people, whether immigrant or not, fleeing this benighted country not coming here? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR is the gender gap really men doing the same job getting paid more or that men are better represented in the better paid jobs? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR what it doesn't say is what they have 'saved' by reducing the number of Georgians who would otherwise be entitled to receive Medicaid. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR is that wealth net or gross of debt (e.g. mortgages), particularly in housing. Appeciating that a good proportion of pensioners who were buying their homes have actually paid off their mortgages. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I'm sure what he simply wants is no more updates (showing everything is tanking) before the US midterm elections. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR there's a new article by Richard Murphy covering Phoenixing in more depth, with some suggested ways of tackling it here: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR (fellow former NCB employee here). npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the Independant bring us details of the ONS's surprising take on air fares prices July 2025 compared to July 2024. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR rather than remove the words, since he says he was the one who included the words "take account of" perhaps he can come up with an explanation as to why UK counrt shoudn't 'follow' ECHR decisions. Surely following case law is very much way UK law works and the existing words also imply the UK courts do have discretion to deviate from ECHR decisions when this was justified? Maybe they follow because the ECHR was right. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR presumably they are also asking to be renationalised? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Starmer's total failure to represent Labour Party members is also shown by the fall in membership. It's dropped from a high of 534,046 in 2019 to a new low of 333, 235 now. A drop of over 200,000 or 38%. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR our plum tree (we live in South Devon) is several years old now but this was the first season we have had a useable crop. And it was a good crop: several kilos pitted. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR eek. Can a Waymo change nappies? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the ONS claim that the rise is air fares and that might be due to changes in where uropean summer holidays fall, so essentially a measurement error (not comparing like with like). npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR this is what the ONS says about transport prices. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR there is an explanation (not sure I fully understand it myself and I doubt it makes sense in MMT) by the OBR, here: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I think the sums for the TPS are done by the government's actuaries. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the majority of both current and former staff at the post-92 universities (which includes me) are in the Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS), that also covers school teachers. The TPS is not a funded scheme. Are there parallel proposals to change future pensions of those currently working in Education? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR currently there are 7.6m - not all unique - on a NHS England waiting list. Many more are taking prescriptions medicines. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR surely Capital Gains Tax ia, as it says, a tax on the Capital gain not on the original investment, npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR my thinking is that in no sense are inheritance taxes double taxed at the moment, any more than pensions are (an equally spurious claim). npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the (marginal) inheritance tax rate is 40%, same as the higher rate from income tax. The average rate is much less (just as it is for income tax) because of the size of the various allowances, with most estates not paying anything. unlike income tax, where most people pay standard rate. However the average income tax rate is still quite low even for most higher rate tax payers. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR we'll probably lose the ozone layer first. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I fail to see the logic in her intervening given her stated priorities. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR "but yes, very odd we have no documentation of an #orca killing a human in the wild" npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR possible. I found that switching to a different DNS provider has, for now at least, restored the connection. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR No, no IPv6. Apart from anything else I don't think my ISP (Zen) support it and it's not configured in my router. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Can anyone help me with a strange 'social.linux.pizza' issue I have or has anyone else the same problem? npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR what puzzled me about Inman's article is the reference to the tax breaks you get by retiring early. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I got up on a ladder and stripped the plums off our plum tree this morning, then stoned them to give us 2.4 Kg of fruit. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR my own gut reaction, having to what is changing already here and abroad is that the claim that climate change and human abuse of the land could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050 is a wild underestimate to rival Nordhaus' Econ-Nobel Prize winning but entirely delusional claims as to its minimal impact on world GDP. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR well done you. We always try and grow corn each year, with mixed success in some due to wind damage or some animal or bird eating the cobs. This year we only got 5 plants to germinate, though they are now growing well and are now showing ears. Noting ours are much shorter than yours. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR just seen that there is now a (positive) article covering the record breaking crowd at the London Trans Pride in the Independent. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR small comfort, maybe, but it is in the Guardian, and fairly prominently on the landing page: npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR what seems worse, to me, is that apparently Tea app weren't even supposed to be keeping the verification data, including photos, after they had verified an applicant. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR In the UK we feishise private property, when for the majority of their lives these who can get on the 'property ladder ' don't really own their onw houses anyway, they are mortgaged up to the hilt and may still be in debt when they hit retirement age. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR it's now 12 years since ONS removed RPI as a national statistics. About time the government sorted out their misuse of this deprecated measure. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR statisticians know that there is a technical error in RPI, which could be corrected and leads to it overstating inflation by about 1% a year. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR 1) my email address has been around decades, so less problems with trust. We did have a bit of an issue in Jan 2020 when a spammer found a postfix misconfiguration allowing open relay. Fixed quickly but It took a little while to get trust back. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR my home email server is still communicating fine at the moment. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I think the count of arrests in Essex is now up to five. The Police are really clamping down hard on the nazis, but of course they are harder to catch and may try to resist arrest. Much simply to bang up grannies holding up hand written cardboard signs opposing genocide. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR lot of good points about the false household analogy and that austerity will often increases need for govt.services later, but probably also worth mentioning the multiplier, cutting public expenditure that goers into (usually poor) people pockets also cuts their spend too and that then reduces the income of the the recipients of that spend, further cutting growth. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR do these 'offenses' go to jury trial? If so how jurors react could be interesting. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR the full set is here (unless the BBC have cut it): npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Under the Tories, tax threshold were frozen in the 2022 budget. Hunt in the 2023 budget announced the continued freezing of tax allowances until 2028. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR well in my opinion Foster's design for the bridge is pretty gaudy shit. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR of course the ever reliable @npub1j79…rc5v has produced a report with a long list of options for how to tax the rich and remove some of the inequities in our tax system : npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR thanks for the reply and clarification. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR I understand the sense in limiting registrations, particularly as you seem the only person running social.linux.pizza (?), and expanding indefinitely would imply the need to changing from that to having a team, and having to manage them has its downsides. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR Recently Labour seem to be slavishly following the Trump Playbook when it comes to economic policy and wilfully choosing the worst option. npub154pctaljw8zq4qa8rgeut79tvw3qkxml6vyr58zz88qjz3q97tgqf0gwly MarjorieR it's always much cheaper to borrow the money to invest if you are the government than if you are a private company, even ignoring the profit element (which you might have to pay anyway if you contract out the actual works).
