Really testing out where the Laffer curve kicks into action!

"Why go to university? Why move to the big city to make yourself in your field? Why work hard if the reward is increasingly diminished?"

Incentives matter!!!

"This looks and feels like a very limited grievance, but it’s indicative of an economy that is working for fewer and fewer of us. That has consequences for the aspirations of the young."

"The lifestyle and material circumstances older generations accessed on a good wage are now out of orbit for those even on an excellent one."

More here on the importance of air connections to modern economic growth.

“Now, the airports – Warrington East and Warrington West – for some reason, they insist on calling themselves Manchester and Liverpool. We don’t know why."

Ingredients aren't for the faint-hearted!

Good idea. Let me check my cellar.

Do you have a favourite vintage?

In related news, my wife has bought a 1kg haggis for the two of us.

Wish me luck.

That chart is from a year ago.

Yes!

Yeah, still great performance in the long run, but they should have done better with the latest move.

These guys have incredibly deep relationships across Silicon Valley, but still seem to have missed both the scale of the AI boom and also which companies would be the beneficiaries. The #NeverSell mentality makes it really hard to switch horses.

With the BBC being a public service broadcaster, we really need a lot more effort from them to (un)cover the stories that matter to the UK and the things under influence of the UK government.

I can only imagine that the journalists, editors, and producers are spending all day on social media, marinating their brains in whatever takes up most space on Twitter that day.