Somebody gets it: More roads equal more traffic And why do more roads equal more traffic? It’s what economists called “induced demand” – this is where if you increase supply, the desire to use this supply increases too. Essentially, people like moving around. They have to do so for work and they are keen to […]
Delightfully old school bands. Pixies have a new album out, as do Warpaint and Yello.
More managerial merry-go-rounds, this time over at the English national team, where Sam Allardyce recently resigned. Daniel Taylor has what looks like a fairly even handed overview of the latest manager to go through the turnstile: Sam Allardyce has certainly excelled himself being the man who managed it after one match, one victory and the grand […]
And shortly after Theresa May sets a deadline for article 50, sterling continues it’s decline. It’s been lower before of course, but that was the time the world economy nearly burned to the ground. In related news, I’m holding off on any amazon.co.uk purchases to let them get cheaper.
It’s now obvious Britain is leaving the single market. Of course, Theresa May spent much of her speech to the Tory party conference today insisting there was no such thing as a hard or soft Brexit. But there is. Continued membership of the single market is a soft Brexit and leaving the single market is […]
