Yussef R

if the fall was due to reduced labour supply, prime-age employment to population would be rising rather than down since the inauguration.

The unemployment rate would also be down rather than up since January

feels like a lot to integrate, i think it'll work out but less sure about how long it takes to come together

this is a great game

Sorry im crashing out on this. WE CAN SOLVE LIKE 90% OF OUR PROBLEMS BY DOING THE RIGHT THING

Foreign correspondents > “Broke Britain’s on the edge of financial disaster, Labour’s out of its depth — and people are angry. I’m scared for what’s to come.” — Andrew Neill, Daily Mail, 22 July. Brillo lives largely in the South of France > “Migrant hotels are radicalising Middle England.” — Guy Dampier, Daily Telegraph, 22 July. Dampier lives in Germany > “Small boats and sky-high legal immigration will continue to wreak demographic havoc. This change is permanent. Millions of immigrants from clashing traditions will bring only more of their friends and families. None of these people are going home.” — Lionel Shriver, Times, 24 July. As Shriver explained in her column, she recently moved to Portugal, having previously migrated to the UK from America > “Epping proves the police are the paramilitary wing of the left.” — Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail, 25 July. Littlejohn lives in Florida for much of the year > “All the online censorship & superinjunctions can’t keep the English down. Regime change.” — Former MP and Telegraph columnist Douglas Carswell commenting on footage of asylum hotel protests, X, 3 August. Carswell lives in Mississippi > “Unless our leaders get a grip — and fast — exasperated communities will turn vigilante. Then things could get really ugly.” — Isabel Oakeshott, Daily Telegraph, 4 August. Oakeshott moved to the UAE in January for tax reasons

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Many of the columnists seemingly egging on English rioters don't even live in the UK. Private Eye again

just looked at her twitter profile, very bleak

Anyway zohran will be in gracie mansion in a few months so no need for them for cuomo to complain

It's funny because we were told (not least by Starmer himself) that this is exactly what Starmer in government wouldn't be like - keeping eye on long term, not buffeted by events - yet every time he appears in public he seems to be reacting to something his advisers read in the Times an hour ago.

even just assuming they want to do something really bad, it doesn't make sense because it is just clearly unworkable - but i guess this is britain

Most people here can see this is a moral disaster, it's also ludicrously unworkable for businesses.

It imposes an unreal administrative burden. As a hospitality business owner, I can tell you the primary responses will be ignore this or implement total gender-neutrality to avoid it

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

On an inflation-adjusted basis, average insured losses rose by 5.9% per year between 1994 and 2023, almost twice faster than GDP over the same period (2.7%)...

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oh man

i am going to short palantir eventually but fighting the impulse to try it just yet

To put it another way, when you produce a building that will provide housing services over the next 20 years, you also, as a sort of positive externality, end up with a building that will produce housing services over another 50 or 100 or more years after that.

I think there is something to that. The key point about housing specifically is that the lifetime of a building is much longer than the investment horizon of the developer. This means that the operating income of older buildings is economically a rent.

I'm actually working on something loosely inspired by this but my present guess is we have a very unusually insular power-elite in this country and it leads to odd moments of group think like this.

This has now received national media attention in the UK, and been boosted by one of our most influential and wealthy cultural figures. This on the basis of a woman doing a normal working class service sector job in a polite way. It is *manifest* the complaint is just trans women existing in public.

The basis of this incident is a(n ostensibly, this is actually somewhat unclear) trans woman working in M&S politely asked a customer if they needed any assistance - by the customer's own admission the worker was polite, and there was no suggestion the worker was going to go into a changing room.

the thing is getting into that position involves lot of sucking up and after a while surely it's just who you are

could almost argue that the infra here is the model training not the data centres i guess

going back to perez, this is part 2 of the process.

you can see the dynamic from analysing historic returns from railway stocks, amazing during the installation phase when there's loads of hype and investment but they didn't end up the long-term beneficiaries of the railway buildout

he loves roadkill

i mean sometimes a stock just wants to go down

i have nothing but bad memories from owning managed futures in a previous job

I would like to submit this as a poster for the 2050 Trump/American decline documentary

people really need to read Carlota Perez

intense hype and bubbles are a key part of how major technological changes happen, they are why the tech and its supporting infrastructure gets rolled out quickly on a massive scale

i feel there's clear evidence of US economic deceleration, only question for me is how bad it gets and how quickly

surely there's a libel case there

They haven’t failed this is the result they wanted

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

how does Canada count foreign students? that might be another piece