Agreed! Zipcar seemed like a good answer to London's excessive number of cars. In my case, I only stopped because I had a baby, and while it's not impossible to put a carseat in a Zipcar, it is a huge faff. Still use bike/Tube for most journeys within London.

You can go more basic, e.g. supply + demand = price, but really basic statements don't get at the point of economics, which is making people's lives better.

Congrats! Shares a birthday with me too!

Yeah not sure if he was working on it before he left or if it's one of his retirement projects...

Ha yeah I kinda wanted to skip it too but it's actually very interesting

Note the way we display charts makes them very difficult to translate, so we're keeping them in English for now.

Let us know what you think, and especially if anything looks wrong! We are using AI translations that are being checked by Spanish-speaking sub-editors, and while we have tried to squash all the bugs/inaccuracies, there will inevitably be a few that get through...

But also there's a growing sense among central banks that physical cash is a critical part of geopolitical resilience. It's not just people concerned about privacy (though that's legit imv) - it's also people rightly worrying about how fragile electronic infrastructure may prove