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@worstall "@s8mb Why not just reinstate the pensions tax credit and watch the money flood into UK stocks"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-18T17:19Z 8360 followers, XXX engagements

"No he's not right. Switzerland has no capital gains tax and inheritance T starts at XXX% and rises all the way to 7%. You can't have all three taxes - wealth CGT and IHT - at high levels because the rich people will leave. Wealthy people will only sit still for so much plucking"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-20T08:43Z 8360 followers, 77.3K engagements

"@TomHCalver Yes it's fun numbers time. But we can also phrase this as "economy with major chunk taken out of it is smaller""
X Link @worstall 2025-10-12T16:32Z 8356 followers, XXX engagements

"@DanCollins2011 I am actually such an expert. I even got both Lynas and Molycorp right last time around too. On the other hand there is something that can usefully be done this time:"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-13T07:50Z 8341 followers, XXX engagements

"What fresh hell of gross misunderstanding is this Someone been watching the Scrooge McDuck cartoons again Dyson's multibillions for example are the shares in the vacuum cleaner company. What's "hoarding" or even "passive" about that"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-17T11:52Z 8340 followers, 2766 engagements

"@RnaudBertrand Sorry you're ignorant. Ga is produced with alumina not aluminium. Non-China world makes XX million tonnes a year of alumina. Which means 1200 t Ga contained and easy to extract. No it's trivial to do. US uses XX (twenty) tonnes a year. This isn't a problem. Get a grip sheesh"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-17T13:01Z 8351 followers, 1155 engagements

"@RnaudBertrand Matey. I've written whole books on weird metals. Gallium is extracted from the solution of a Bayer Process plant. We have many BP plants which do not have the necessary extractor. Add the extractor we get Ga. Piffling costs. Capisce"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-17T19:06Z 8343 followers, XXX engagements

"@BeijingDai Sigh. US uses c. XX tonnes Ga a year. You do not build a new alumina plant to make Ga. You add the Ga extraction circuit to an extant plant. Non-China produces XX million tonnes a year of alumina. Production of crude Ga is not a major problem"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-18T06:42Z 8346 followers, 1576 engagements

"@AscendedYield Most of the value of innovation turns up as consumer surplus not GDP"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-18T10:04Z 8352 followers, XXX engagements

"@RnaudBertrand @PaulKoigi "Greek energy and metals group Metlen said on Thursday that in 2028 its production in critical mineral gallium which is used in smartphones will reach XX tonnes""
X Link @worstall 2025-10-18T12:17Z 8340 followers, XX engagements

"@LupinPooter_ @AdamPugh @TheIFS I just used the Google AI. Do that then track their references. But if GDP is 25tr X% is XXX b. Pop is XX m XX% is 38.5m so bottom XX% each get 3900 a year Seriously that's not even close"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-19T17:54Z 8357 followers, XX engagements

"@David__Osland Why The accusation is that he shagged a XX year old. Which is above the age of consent in this country"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-19T18:49Z 8358 followers, XXX engagements

"@jerryalderson @David__Osland @metpoliceuk That would require Andrew to have been doing the paying. Which I am not sure anyone has been alleging"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-19T19:30Z 8357 followers, XXX engagements

"@MysteriosoX @_i0n There was one day I had to drive to Lincoln to just by the cathedral close there. Out of Alfred St left onto Lansdown keep going until you see the cathedral. Still works even if it gets right narrow at times. Came back by main rods TBF"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-19T19:38Z 8358 followers, XX engagements

"@_HenryBolton Venning's Law. "The correct answer to any question containing the word "surely" is "No"". Taxing transactions reduces the number of transactions makes the market less liquid. Thus people move less raising the unemployment rate"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-08T19:19Z 8361 followers, 1463 engagements

"A couple of decades back I told @elonmusk that he didn't need to use scandium in his rockets (no really). This advice now slightly changes. He should at least investigate the use of scandium aluminide in the metallic heat shield tiles. That is all"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-15T16:19Z 8358 followers, XXX engagements

"To be honest about it I've not heard of an England where 172k children each owned their own home. Or had tenancy of their own home. So umm"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-17T08:15Z 8361 followers, XXX engagements

"@RnaudBertrand Ho Hum. This is double US annual consumption. That demonstration plant has a cost of $X million apparently"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-18T12:17Z 8358 followers, XX engagements

"@labourlewis The supposed crime was shagging Virginia when she was XX. Which in the UK is in fact legal - whatever we might say about moral. So why would Andrew be in jail Anyone who wants to make a claim needs to be certain about it - libel laws do exist"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-19T18:42Z 8360 followers, 1031 engagements

"@SealOfTheEnd @GarettJones @ATabarrok @MargRev Both Lynas and Mountain Pass are still producing so"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-20T06:16Z 8358 followers, XX engagements

"Mebbe 1028 when Cnut became K of Norway maybe 1016 when he became K of England"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-19T13:00Z 8360 followers, XXX engagements

"Usual damn idiocy from Reich. Median CEO pay in the US is $269000 a year"
X Link @worstall 2025-10-20T12:19Z 8360 followers, XXX engagements