#  @worstall Tim Worstall
Tim Worstall posts on X about in the, money, gas, more than the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/followers)
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### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::79949872/influencer_rank)
### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance) #947 [countries](/list/countries) #5063 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 3.55% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 1.48% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.48% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.89% [premier league](/list/premier-league) 0.3% [champions league](/list/champions-league) 0.3% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) 0.3%
**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 12.72%, [money](/topic/money) 6.51%, [gas](/topic/gas) 4.44%, [more than](/topic/more-than) 3.25%, [inflation](/topic/inflation) 2.96%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.96%, [gdp](/topic/gdp) 2.37%, [investment](/topic/investment) 2.07%, [london](/topic/london) 2.07%, [the first](/topic/the-first) 1.78%
**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@CasinoCapital Yeah they'll weight it by the basket purchased. So T Clubcard will be on that percentage of shopping that happens at T and those specific items that are cheaper. It'll change a bit. And only for the first year - in Y [--] the effects of clubcard will already be in the starting no"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016505487345267155) 2026-01-28T13:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@sturgios Nicely arch. I'd be prepared to bet substantial sums on the money coming from privileged access to foreign exchange at absurd rates. Something oft available to those with privileged access to higher grade clerics in that country"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2018022444527694133) 2026-02-01T18:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The interest rate on student loans is high because someone somewhere has to pay for all those loans never repaid and so written off. It's simply expensive to do this. Perhaps we should just have fewer people going to university fewer universities and so a cheaper system"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2018384542407569905) 2026-02-02T18:02Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements
"@Bemused21 @carygold @ETadpole @TIMGOLDFINCH @DMcWilliams_UK @Davidmetroland @arthur_eckart @ThomasSirianni2 @l_lucullus @HenricCont @teladis94074 @David11359148 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2018720114682552543) 2026-02-03T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What emails should be in the Epstein files but aren't Need some inspiration here. The more ludicrous absurd the better. And of course untrue"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2018971237783871593) 2026-02-04T08:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A prediction - bad fires in Spain and Portugal this summer/autumn. Winter rains green springs mean more fire load to burn later. For every summer is hot and dry enough to allow fires. Just mark this down to reference it in [--] months when we're told climate change means burning As a result of the intense rainfall over the past few weeks soils across most of Spain are now close to full saturation (between 90% and 100%) setting the stage for an exceptionally fertile and visually stunning spring. https://t.co/ziHhc42ngz As a result of the intense rainfall over the past few weeks soils across most"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019076960912130439) 2026-02-04T15:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@sc_cath Quite. Their measure of wealth does not include any income streams or services from govt. So you could do as Sweden vastly reduce income - and presumably consumption - inequality by fiscal means but you've still got exactly the wealth inequality started with. Not useful"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019105324142326068) 2026-02-04T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The EU's offer. If UK taxpayers cough up for the loan to Ukraine then a couple of UK companies - capitalists - might get some orders. Erm no ta. Even bugger off. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/eu-deal-on-ukraine-loan-could-boost-uk-if-it-agrees-to-help-pay-costs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/eu-deal-on-ukraine-loan-could-boost-uk-if-it-agrees-to-help-pay-costs"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019331785256206707) 2026-02-05T08:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oh Gawd. This is @RichardJMurphy levels of non-thinking. Bond yields are nominal rates - including inflation (technically expected). UK inflation is higher than French. Therefore nominal yields are higher. Subtract the local inflation rate to get the real yield. Sheesh. France just passed a disaster budget. Its debt to GDP is 118% and rising. The doom loop is confirmed reform is proving impossible. And yet French [--] year bond yields are at around 3.5% compared to our gilt yields of up to 4.9%. https://t.co/nFxpyg1sj1 France just passed a disaster budget. Its debt to GDP is 118% and rising."
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019352194173268488) 2026-02-05T10:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Telegraph's looking for a senior money writer. They demand numeracy. Tough demand there for the journalistic classes"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019354704711483852) 2026-02-05T10:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BMA_James_Steen Once again no one is doubting that we can have free university education. We still have the "but for how many" question. [--] to 10% of the age cohort Sure. 50% Nope. Finland for example sends 20% (c.) to uni. Another 20% to trade schools"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019487537706766503) 2026-02-05T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @TIMGOLDFINCH @HenricCont @David11359148 @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @ThomasSirianni2 @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019495668465766575) 2026-02-05T19:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @TIMGOLDFINCH @HenricCont @David11359148 @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @ThomasSirianni2 @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019524506398912933) 2026-02-05T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What an odd thing to say: "Somehow the grooming gangs of Rotherham cause more visceral disgust and outcry than exploitation of these equally vulnerable victims procured for the lusts of the wealthy." Err yes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-peter-mandelson-labour https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-peter-mandelson-labour"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019698019260899538) 2026-02-06T09:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Seen this The English equivalent is stout bird shouting Rule Britannia as the Brigade of Guards - in full pomp - march along Beachy Head and every RN battleship ever pounds France into the puddle of garlicky cheese which is its rightful fate. Marvellous https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a_mh-v02-Tw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a_mh-v02-Tw"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019702842362314916) 2026-02-06T09:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's such a weird demand. Palantir It's just a software company. Why must this be ousted Palantir has no place in our country. Deyank the UK starting with ending every government contract with monstrous tech firms. Palantir has no place in our country. Deyank the UK starting with ending every government contract with monstrous tech firms"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019801571832291776) 2026-02-06T15:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@julianHjessop See Reform solving real world problems even before taking office"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019805934240006433) 2026-02-06T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@l_lucullus @arthur_eckart @ThomasSirianni2 @carygold @TIMGOLDFINCH @HenricCont @David11359148 @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019882809997840520) 2026-02-06T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"True this: House prices are actually falling in real terms falling even more as a multiple of earnings. https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/house-prices-are-falling-sorry-they-are https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/house-prices-are-falling-sorry-they-are"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020075252416680163) 2026-02-07T10:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"That's brave the new Fed Chair is trying to bring back the cardigan as waistcoat ("vest" to USians) look for formal wear. Umm yeah OK. If we take that statement literally that is not what standard theory would say. To clarify for non economists modern macro theory explain business cycles as responses to unforeseen events we call "shocks." You need some way of identifying the shocks and estimating their If we take that statement literally that is not what standard theory would say. To clarify for non economists modern macro theory explain business cycles as responses to unforeseen events we"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020109781994750122) 2026-02-07T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@s8mb @CW_Architect The Cumberland Circular. Not wholly obvious there's a point to that"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020110254940311786) 2026-02-07T12:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@alexfmac Portugal's not been any better. Believe me. In fact the local irrigation dam is so full they're releasing water. Which is sorta OK it's just that then means a raging torrent where there's normally a road or two"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020113536169414846) 2026-02-07T12:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oren Cass whines: "But actual business investment has declined to an average of [---] percent of G.D.P. over the past decade from [---] percent in the 1960s" Investment is a cost. Why is he whining that costs have gone down https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020125389272523115) 2026-02-07T13:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Gordon Brown uses current events to justify what he wants to do anyway. Funny how politics works eh https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/this-event-perfectly-justifies-what-i-want-to-do-anyway https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/this-event-perfectly-justifies-what-i-want-to-do-anyway"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020428216763371558) 2026-02-08T09:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@kickingmustang @TIMGOLDFINCH Real wages are rising. That is wages are rising faster than inflation. House prices are rising by less than inflation. Thus the ratio of house prices to wages is falling - houses are becoming cheaper. This is not a difficult concept"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020598048368537881) 2026-02-08T20:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SZamparutti @DavidMo50860521 Bringing the clap home - allegedly - from an adventure might still be something frowned upon. Possibly"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020793642072285490) 2026-02-09T09:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"You'd think that an actual accounting academic would know that corporation tax comes off first. So the CGT and dividend tax rates are those numbers *plus* corporation tax. Prem might even know that but what's knowledge when there're political memes to create Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45% + National Insurance. Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%: dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%; No NIC levied. Rich appeased. Difference in rates/NIC fuels tax abuse industry public purse robbed of billions. https://t.co/AWUVrBroPM Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45% + National Insurance."
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020803864027394506) 2026-02-09T10:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Don't believe it until it's denied: "Keir Starmer not resigning as prime minister - Downing Street" We can hope eh"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020842833952010357) 2026-02-09T12:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020941561362784700) 2026-02-09T19:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020944085629247584) 2026-02-09T19:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020945336572031276) 2026-02-09T19:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020946989555568889) 2026-02-09T19:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@arthur_eckart @carygold @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020951377745412343) 2026-02-09T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020951654816968720) 2026-02-09T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020951992856870926) 2026-02-09T20:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@RobinBoardmanUK Erm 'Ello If you've higher yields and also revenue from power then why does it require government to scale it You've insisted it is more profitable already. Therefore it can be privately financed. And if it cannot be privately financed then it's not more profitable is it"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020959353642406072) 2026-02-09T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@faisalislam True people have come to grief playing FX and borrowing like that. Polly Peck being an obvious example (even if that was deliberate)"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021147890379362322) 2026-02-10T09:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Those Congo mines for coltan. Very bad very bad indeed. It's the absence of proper capitalist mining that's the problem d'ye see https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-problem-is-the-absence-of-capitalism https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-problem-is-the-absence-of-capitalism"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021151734358303002) 2026-02-10T09:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@RSGopalan3 @Handrev The Bank of England In a French experiment with money Not a lot"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021170637792760000) 2026-02-10T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@tjbate2000 Ah now you're going well over my head. And to be fair outside my interest. I usually run with macro is the math nerds gurning over their slide rules and micro is what actually matters. This could be because I've not the maths for macro could be because I truly believe it"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021313283366511086) 2026-02-10T20:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@BenGoldsmith @rtsrichard Who knows could have been that Nigel knew Chris Booker well and so had views on the Levels etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021666623560786371) 2026-02-11T19:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"How weird. I always thought dyslexia was a simple problem with pattern recognition and stuff not [--] points off an IQ. Every time you use a VPN A child dies https://t.co/9wfJMPxbnF Every time you use a VPN A child dies https://t.co/9wfJMPxbnF"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1950457069200367827) 2025-07-30T07:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Man's an idiot. The British government owns all oil and gas in the UK. That's why the British government gets paid for all oil and gas drilled and lifted in the UK. We would fight this in GM.👇🏻 Communities across the North would face all the danger and disruption while big oil and gas walk away with all the profits. 1/2 We would fight this in GM.👇🏻 Communities across the North would face all the danger and disruption while big oil and gas walk away with all the profits. 1/2"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1960251126814548112) 2025-08-26T08:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is absurd. The RNLI has *always* been a volunteer society. It cannot be proof of "failing" that it still is. Quite the contrary it's proof that Bruke was right. The people can get together and do things - even public goods - without government being required. It's a sign of a failing society that vital emergency services like the RNLI and mountain rescue are charities nearly fully staffed by volunteers rather than publicly funded agencies. It's a sign of a failing society that vital emergency services like the RNLI and mountain rescue are charities nearly fully staffed by volunteers"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021144244883161307) 2026-02-10T08:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@faisalislam Erm. Don't you borrow where you think it will be cheap Say borrow now in a declining currency (where interest rates are lower than you expect the fall in value to be) and then pay back in that then cheaper currency in the future Ie borrowing in is a vote of non-confidence"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021145635664036335) 2026-02-10T08:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@cjsnowdon The Harvard student walkout mentioned. Mankiw's class Econ [---]. "We demand Keynes proper economics not this markets shit". In Nov. Well OK. It's just micro is first semester and macro is second starting Jan"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021256661025824927) 2026-02-10T16:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@tjbate2000 To an extent - an extent only - this is the Lucas Critique. As soon as you have a macroeconomic plan then everyone changes their behaviour because of the plan"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021308881276727612) 2026-02-10T19:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Dr_W_E_Bulmer [----] was before capital gains tax. So entrepreneurs were not taxed on the value of building a company while rentiers were upon income from stocks of capital. Seems a useful distinction to make"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021511998568034602) 2026-02-11T09:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rjcroton You seem to think that a billionaire is someone who has a billion in the bank. Snigger"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022339226839519626) 2026-02-13T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Kaleidicworld Much the same is true of financial regulation too. Sure Big Bang allowed competition. But the rulebook got ever fatter as well"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015328353046167566) 2026-01-25T07:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@duncanrobinson [--] billion for somewhere for politicians to park their arses We could buy tents on South Georgia Island for that. We should in fact. Locate the politicians where they do us less damage"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019485710688956543) 2026-02-05T18:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Benin Bronzes were made from the manillas used in payment for slaves. They are rightfully therefore part of the reparations for Nigeria's involvement in slavery. We should therefore give them all to Dianne Abbott. https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/cambridges-return-of-100-benin-bronzes-puts-british-museum-on-the-spot https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/cambridges-return-of-100-benin-bronzes-puts-british-museum-on-the-spot"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2020423089423835586) 2026-02-08T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Of Course Jeff Bezos Should Fire Hundreds @ Washington Post by @worstall Too few grasp that @JeffBezos is trying to deal with a real problem that requires desperately needs a solution. https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-jeff-bezos-should-fireutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-jeff-bezos-should-fireutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021517627689148563) 2026-02-11T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@jimthegiant If you actually look at the analysis they themselves did of the scheme [--] million (of the c. 100m costs) of the benefits came from the artists being paid feeling better. That's not a useful CBA it really isn't"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021864468095939038) 2026-02-12T08:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@teladis94074 @carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @helgy2 @Davidmetroland @HenricCont @bourdeau_ed @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022334091044303086) 2026-02-13T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@teladis94074 @carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @helgy2 @Davidmetroland @HenricCont @bourdeau_ed @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022336656100225279) 2026-02-13T15:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @HenricCont @David11359148 @TIMGOLDFINCH @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @ThomasSirianni2 @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2019328977182294248) 2026-02-05T08:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sacha_Lord @ntiaofficial Lordy Be but that's a stupid question. Nero Group - which owns Cafe Nero - paid [--] million in corporation tax for the most recent trading year. Possibly more than the caff next to your conference"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021582892455899468) 2026-02-11T13:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This: "So when we say markets work perfectly under perfect competition perfect substitutes complete markets and fully rational agents were not claiming those conditions hold. Were saying the literature should be built around the violation of these assumptions." This is a deep misunderstanding of how economics works. Economists dont start with unrealistic assumptions to reach irrelevant conclusions. Theorists spell out the assumptions under which an idealized stylized result can be provenand very often that result is an irrelevance This is a deep misunderstanding of how economics works."
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021864881977196942) 2026-02-12T08:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@sionster @scepticalists Indeed so The reason they're replacing it is that the old (ie few years old) one never could be made to work. Was ruled unfair by the courts even. None of which stops it being a damn fool idiot stupid idea. Of course"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022010503871312317) 2026-02-12T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How excellent The Guardian is now onboard. No Representation Without Taxation. This is obvs what they mean when Jim Ratcliffe is told to shut up 'ee's a tax exile see Gonna be an interesting political settlement after that. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/guardian-view-on-sir-jim-ratcliffe-britain-does-not-need-political-lectures-from-a-billionaire-tax-exile https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/guardian-view-on-sir-jim-ratcliffe-britain-does-not-need-political-lectures-from-a-billionaire-tax-exile"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022224864317509961) 2026-02-13T08:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Dutch tax on unrealised capital gains. A current even usual complaint is that financial markets don't think long term. That everyone merely speculates not invests for the future. So now the tax system is going to insist everyone liquidate positions each and every year"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022267369268101601) 2026-02-13T11:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@rjcroton @JackKel84 @CUBE_CFC Ahhh now I understand your position. You are simply ignorant. Well that solves that then"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022392002210595242) 2026-02-13T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@jamesharrigan @BrianCAlbrecht Ah yes very apt"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021658271560679600) 2026-02-11T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@mariellaf1 Tax is always an opt in for everyone. It is - other than for Americans - always possible to leave the country the taxing jurisdiction. As say all our immigrants have done leaving the tax residency of their birth right"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021876729174696097) 2026-02-12T09:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is joyous "Scrapping the agreement to cover Bank of England losses." Forgive the cretins Lord they know not what they do. 40% of people have less than [---] left at the end of the month after they've covered their essentials. We shouldn't be living like this. We can fight for a future we can all afford. Follow @CostOfLivingAct https://t.co/vYvSsf6O11 40% of people have less than [---] left at the end of the month after they've covered their essentials. We shouldn't be living like this. We can fight for a future we can all afford. Follow @CostOfLivingAct https://t.co/vYvSsf6O11"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021939314398310671) 2026-02-12T13:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Govt is - aha aha - risk free. Given the repayment level on student loans they're not credit risk free are they"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021941198764810440) 2026-02-12T13:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We should thank the Dutch in advance. For this is going to be a disaster. Which will show the rest of us how stupid it would be to tax unrealised capital gains. Sad day in NL the Dutch government is expected to pass a bill introducing a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains. This will destroy long-term strategies kill compounding effects & trigger a wealth exodus of biblical proportions. But they'll pass it anyway. Can't fix stupid. Sad day in NL the Dutch government is expected to pass a bill introducing a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains. This will destroy long-term strategies kill"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2021973072325095511) 2026-02-12T15:42Z [----] followers, 107.4K engagements
"@KMc_head You can carry forward losses yes but not a credit you're right"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022006792541417924) 2026-02-12T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If even the State - yea the fount of all law and power - needs exemptions from planning law in order to get houses built then maybe perhaps it's planning law that needs to change not the granting of an exemption https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/if-the-system-doesnt-work-why-not-change-the-system https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/if-the-system-doesnt-work-why-not-change-the-system"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022244503151890538) 2026-02-13T09:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Fun point isn't it Why should the one man be forced to pay for [------] nurses The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra [------] NHS nurses. It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires. https://t.co/hlXUmBpUhF The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra [------] NHS nurses. It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires. https://t.co/hlXUmBpUhF"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022244869469806976) 2026-02-13T09:42Z [----] followers, 295K engagements
"@mj_cotton There's no such thing as tax avoidance. There's tax compliance - paying the tax the law demands - and tax evasion - not paying the tax the law demands. There is nothing else"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022297172545339557) 2026-02-13T13:09Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"@Shiwon_NZ_Ao Excellent. So if as and even when he sells then he should pay. Mere ownership is not income after all"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022331919154000179) 2026-02-13T15:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@iantresman But OK Walmart's suppliers got paid $511 billion that year. If Walmart only makes $1b profit then all suppliers - why would we assume that only farmers have the fun - would get $529b that $18b extra. 3.5% extra. Sure 3.5% is 3.5% but it's hardly a game changer is it"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022365734895075491) 2026-02-13T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@glendowerowain I guarantee you that prices do fall at Walmart when global commodity prices do. Olive oil for example. From this: and Walmart's website retail seems to have halved or so as wholesale came down. So you know. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ikapFuI5Cs0 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ikapFuI5Cs0"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022370487242731929) 2026-02-13T18:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How many monoglot Welsh speakers does Britain have At a guess I'd say the number hovers around zero. [------] people in Britain speak Welsh. [------] people in Britain speak Welsh"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022382395979370682) 2026-02-13T18:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@rjcroton @JackKel84 @CUBE_CFC I even know why CGT is at a different rate. 1) Corporation tax so the full rate is CGT plus CT 2) There's no inflation indexation on CGT 3) Significant work has been put into determining the peak of the Laffer Curve for CGT and it's lower than that for income tax. So you know"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022391396855173186) 2026-02-13T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rjcroton @JackKel84 @CUBE_CFC So learn then: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/20/in-which-we-spot-the-laffer-curve-in-the-wild/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/20/in-which-we-spot-the-laffer-curve-in-the-wild/"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2022401359799292053) 2026-02-13T20:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@EssenceOfZam @Samueljohn57 @Andrews86495144 @michael_chessum If the English system is privatised the others are not but the English system is better than the other non-privatised ones then nationalising the privatised English system will not make it better will it"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2013612472125530558) 2026-01-20T13:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@EssenceOfZam @Samueljohn57 @Andrews86495144 @michael_chessum BTW if you think the French water system is fully state run then you're remarkably ignorant of the subject under discussion. https://ideas.repec.org/p/crc/wpaper/0903.html https://ideas.repec.org/p/crc/wpaper/0903.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2013647563086352502) 2026-01-20T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Manchester already gave the world sensible economics - Manchester Liberalism. You know minimal govt free trade rule of law and bugger the rest of it Burnham proposes Manchesterism as an alternative to borrowing to fund the deficit but his Greater Manchester Combined Authority has 1.4bn of debt which is 150m for every year he has been mayor and 825% of its annual revenue Burnham proposes Manchesterism as an alternative to borrowing to fund the deficit but his Greater Manchester Combined Authority has 1.4bn of debt which is 150m for every year he has been mayor and 825% of its annual revenue"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2013716969409724642) 2026-01-20T20:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ArmandDoma This is true. OTH it's also true that the Victorians did execute a number for "sodomy". In one year I think more than were topped for murder in fact. The bit I'm unsure about is how much was for consensual and how much was rape. (an example child rape: ) https://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1830news.htm https://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1830news.htm"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2013890810861810056) 2026-01-21T08:26Z [----] followers, 85.4K engagements
"@asentance Err no. The reason to exclude food is that sometimes food prices go down. Say egg prices after avian 'flu has passed through rather than while it is passing through. Food and fuel are variable that is so not part of core"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2013955236365324394) 2026-01-21T12:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BradfemlyWalsh These are sweet potatoes yams. Not actual spuds. Also how marvellous that "nosh" has made it into NY tabloid journalism"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014011396120338861) 2026-01-21T16:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum What [---] people get paid - FTSE CEOs - is such a trivial portion of the economy that it doesn't even register on population wide measurements. If they all get 20m that's 2b in a 3tr economy. 0.06%. It just won't move the dial on the inequality measure"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014050447976288408) 2026-01-21T19:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum Ah you don't understand then. If we use $2015 then that means we've recalculated everything into the value of [----] $. We have effectively taken inflation the changing value of the $ out of the comparison. And no the poor are richer in real terms. Really. That's just true"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014052282376085868) 2026-01-21T19:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum The Gini - the standard measure of inequality - is described here. It is *not* highest to lowest. Your second is "real GDP per capita". For the world it's rising: For the UK flat at worst last few years rising over decades. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KDlocations=GB-1W https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-gini-coefficient https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KDlocations=GB-1W https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-gini-coefficient"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014053849909153954) 2026-01-21T19:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum That's what "real" means. "Nominal" GDP is before we account for inflation. "Real" GDP is after we've adjusted for inflation. Seriously please do try to keep up. Grasp the basics of what you're trying to talk about. BTW asset prices are not part of GDP"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014058519549423945) 2026-01-21T19:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Porkchop_EXP Having lived there no. Oh it's fine. SB is OK but incredibly incredibly expensive. Lompoc's a shithole Santa Maria boring SLO is fine but expensive etc. The real rave is the weather. But you can get that anywhere around the Med. See it but don't bother"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014065436573180222) 2026-01-21T19:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you can get 45% of your 'leccie from hydro then yes you can go 100% renewables (it isn't in fact there's still some thermal plant). Great. So which substantial part of Britain do we flood Anyone ready to build that reservoir in Abingdon yet Uruguay's electricity grid going 100% renewable in just five years proves how quick and easy the transition can be and therefore how the failure of other countries to do the same is inexcusable Uruguay's electricity grid going 100% renewable in just five years proves how quick and easy the transition can be and therefore how the failure of other"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014258999424688147) 2026-01-22T08:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Action Aid is to stop sponsoring children and instead "invest" in movements. "Sounds like these throbbers want to take money away from poor African kids and deliver it to grifting arseholes like them instead" Comment on the blog from Marius"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014275395114148077) 2026-01-22T09:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DearTrebor1973 Could be. There are people trying to revive the idea right now and I'd love to see their NPV caclulation"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014294441536753717) 2026-01-22T11:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"As PJ O'Rourke pointed out the British eat fried guppies. Yummy too. Fried sprats/whitebait (mini herring) are a more traditional English food than fish and chips which took off in the late 19th century. Sprats are recorded as a dish here in the 17th c and are probably older. They have been fried and battered BEFORE we ever did that to cod. They https://t.co/nitmtF0j9Z Fried sprats/whitebait (mini herring) are a more traditional English food than fish and chips which took off in the late 19th century. Sprats are recorded as a dish here in the 17th c and are probably older. They have been"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014341699556803052) 2026-01-22T14:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The alarming good sense of the British public. Also why we need to retain juries. @worstall @Artemisfornow Another. When the insane Jim Anderton was Chief Constable of Manchester almost a third of all the cases in Mcr Crown Court were for indecency in a public place ie gay men having sex in public toilets. The juries simply acquitted all of them. Eventually the HO checked him. @worstall @Artemisfornow Another. When the insane Jim Anderton was Chief Constable of Manchester almost a third of all the cases in Mcr Crown Court were for indecency in a public place ie gay men having sex in public"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014374597974479324) 2026-01-22T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is how I know I'm not dim but also am not clever. I skip through tra la the early parts of such tests and come to a screeching halt with these. No idea. This is general don't get pictures photos got to page [--] in Topography for Toddlers. The higher realms just a mystery. This is a mental rotation test (MRT). Theyre commonly used in IQ tests. Which two images are the same as the original image https://t.co/mQzRVDeRvb This is a mental rotation test (MRT). Theyre commonly used in IQ tests. Which two images are the same as the original image https://t.co/mQzRVDeRvb"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014381778031505618) 2026-01-22T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@MattBrookes3 @shivmalik Quite. And who would believe that governments in the middle - Blair Brown etc - would not have spent the money anyway Anyone really think we'd have got through [----] without spending it Or the shrieks of "austerity" as spending continued to rise post-2010"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014415636420612555) 2026-01-22T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So just a general question. Anyone got some old X-Ray film You know say an entire radiology department full Couple of hundred tonnes More Can't say why of course supersekkret. But just thought I'd ask. You'd not have to pay me much for me to get rid of it for you"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014422428978446612) 2026-01-22T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AdamPollock Why would nurses be any less fond of free stuff than any other humans"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014792870134219174) 2026-01-23T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Michael Heseltine used the same tailor as Jim Prior. Hesie made the mistake of asking for suits be made to fit. Prior proper gentry insisted they be made like they came from a grandpa with hunchback uneven limbs. Good Lord these boys will be buying their own furniture next"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014797544207880486) 2026-01-23T20:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is why The English invented the "public house""
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014799829717680612) 2026-01-23T20:38Z [----] followers, 115.2K engagements
"@MattBrookes3 Furthest north I've lived was Moscow (so Edinburgh latitide sorta) and [--] or [--] hours of daylight explains vodka pretty well yes. By mid-Feb you also understand the phrase "cabin fever" pretty well too"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014963803482382532) 2026-01-24T07:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@hiltonholloway The "gin palaces" were designed with exactly that effect in mind. Even the loos of some of the grander ones can still slightly startle today. The Princess Louise at Holborn for example"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014964700446892380) 2026-01-24T07:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ASouthen91055 @kitten_beloved I have a feeling that some of that - some perhaps - was that The Monks were really half The Strawbs trying to do punk"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014978615943843962) 2026-01-24T08:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 Aha so I have learned my new thing for the day already by [--] am. How blessed this day is therefore"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014986733658497269) 2026-01-24T09:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PolemicTMM What are thre numbers of you're not using red diesel That is fully taxed derv And umm is red derv allowed for gen sets"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015018390402834866) 2026-01-24T11:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Slavery hindered US growth not promoted it. Interesting and important recent research. Should - but won't of course - deter those idiots calling for reparations. https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/23/how-slavery-held-back-growth-looking-across-the-river/ https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/23/how-slavery-held-back-growth-looking-across-the-river/"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015028263236645263) 2026-01-24T11:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@whitesundesert Every bogan with a hammer climbed aboard that one. Including several who hammered nails through live mains cables. Only once each mind"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015102485124260123) 2026-01-24T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews Where is Nvidia's profit made Where the chip design is done - after all they don't even make them TSMC does that. So where should profit be assigned Where the IP is. Where is that The US. So your problem is HMRC does have a little guide on how corp tax works"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015130648814506159) 2026-01-24T18:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews Brooks used to be an HMRC inspector before he decided to downgrade to alarmist journalism"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015142506711711879) 2026-01-24T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 @IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews His stories on Vodafone were umm slanted. Basically the [--] b was what he thought tax law should have been not what it was. So you know agenda"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015327104976539996) 2026-01-25T07:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This a fun observation. For now think a bit - as a private investor you'll never buy at less than spot for physical. But you'll near always sell at significantly less than spot. Not a good deal is it The number of times spivs have exploited this to defraud in other metals. Buying gold and silver is relatively easy. Selling it not so much. As a manager of a physical gold fund with access to the largest refineries in Switzerland we were able to liquidate metal positions in a trusted network with very little friction. The same thing is not true https://t.co/KMqg6fQWvo Buying gold and silver is"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015352275900797216) 2026-01-25T09:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SteveDavies365 @aljhlester Hmm. I think we can take the 20th c as showing that planned economies - whether fascist or communist - don't work as well as free market. Big example big lesson of course so your point might hold at the detail level"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015357724507115949) 2026-01-25T09:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 @IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews It was indeed all about CFC. Brooks' (P Eye's) estimate always assumed that CFC applied in Lux. As it turned out it didn't. Therefore there never was the 6b liability. The later payment was when V moved money back into UK to pay a divvie. All agreed all along that was taxable"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015358737926566239) 2026-01-25T09:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 @IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews As I recall it last judgement in V case was "Well theoretically maybe" and abt same time Cadbury told HMRC "No". So given the precedent that was that. But at this distance note "recall""
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015360687401312404) 2026-01-25T09:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@patrickcrozier It's deffo a speculative surge yes. His good delivery bars Dunno - also precious isn't my thing minor is"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015377523157148130) 2026-01-25T10:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MattBrookes3 @real_lord_miles @grok Polly Toynbee used to write in The Guardian about how Labour inner city constituencies were being undercounted by population. Using sewage volumes as her measure. Correction would have benefitted Labour thus explaining Polly. Bit quiet on that in recent years tho' Our Poll is"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015478337548796124) 2026-01-25T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Traditionally Tuesday is the slowest day of the restaurant/pub year. Tuesdays are always the slowest day anyway. And this Tues is just after the Christmas credit card bill payments hit. You should read this in a Michael Caine voice not a lot of people know that"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015480238428295354) 2026-01-25T17:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ah yes the balanced budget multiplier. Certainly true at v low levels of public spending. Not true at very high ones - the spend has to be of higher value than what the untaxed would have been spent upon for it to be true. We are .at already too much for it to be true It would seem that higher public spending does not in fact boost the economy more than the tax rises needed to pay for it. Im confident that the OBR will have learned from its mistakes so it can repeat them exactly. https://t.co/SD0Whp0rha It would seem that higher public spending does not in fact boost the economy more than the"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015481574997840304) 2026-01-25T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@PolemicTMM "Got a bit of inertia on the corners you know but you can get it up to the clappers on the straight.""
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015528231059792162) 2026-01-25T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@w_s_gosset @KarelKannel @Jordan_W_Taylor Ah well I did yes I did know that. Also scandium is named after scandinavia"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015687468524183990) 2026-01-26T07:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@mattyglesias There are deals in the UK market where you can sign up for that. Not perhaps wholly and exactly but pretty much - including negative prices at times. Which means there's a natural experiment that can be studied so as to decide upon the merits- or not"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015699124536873008) 2026-01-26T08:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@anne_hegerty @larissaphillip NT too. How we know economists are more important than writers or priests. John [---] - beginning was the word word was God.before which was chaos. Ah yes but who created the chaos"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015756457610723490) 2026-01-26T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If only people could be bothered to understand their own shitposting. If wages have risen more than overall inflation then everyone is better off. By about oooh 35% in only [--] years That's pretty good for an economic system. Sigh. It is fascinating how efficient capitalism is at reducing the price of non essentials and boosting the price of essentials It is fascinating how efficient capitalism is at reducing the price of non essentials and boosting the price of essentials"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015856411377324038) 2026-01-26T18:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"OK so gas sets UK price 98% of time Greece 90%. Greek 'leccie price is [--] cents UK is [--] pence . The UK price is 50% higher than the Greek price. It's not how often gas sets the price which is driving up UK prices is it Tosser If we want to make life affordable we need to install clean power and get off natural gas 👇 Natural gas sets our energy price 98% of the time. Gas that is 40% more expensive than wind. https://t.co/P7tgxkSvbX If we want to make life affordable we need to install clean power and get off natural gas 👇 Natural gas sets our energy price 98% of the time. Gas that is 40%"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015860560340889918) 2026-01-26T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DominicFrisby Take out Why Skim laddie skim always more profitable in the long term. 0.01% (a pip only a pip) of all FX would be a very tidy sum. Just in London [---] million a day. Enough to keep even me in hookers and decent vino"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015862206181581049) 2026-01-26T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@novaramedia Economist states that someone borrowing money to invest proves they've run out of money. Everyone else insists that's not an economist that's a loon. The entirety of capitalism is based upon the idea that investment is financed by capitalists right"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015874141983789294) 2026-01-26T19:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek It's fun that finally folk are getting the point I've been making about rare earths for [--] years now. Not rare not earths it's the refining that is the problem. Shoulda charged royalties right https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/09/29/you-dont-bring-a-praseodymium-knife-to-a-gunfight/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/09/29/you-dont-bring-a-praseodymium-knife-to-a-gunfight/"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015883808201920559) 2026-01-26T20:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek My piece is 2010"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015896362609455383) 2026-01-26T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PippaCrerar Given current inflation rates [---] will be a peppercorn in [--] years time"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016090880487072150) 2026-01-27T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Fat_Jacques @PippaCrerar No that's about tax rates (fiscal see). This is pure inflation. Or even fiscal drag is this same effect but upon tax allowances"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016097181095108694) 2026-01-27T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dont Increase The Minimum Wage Raise The EITC Instead: Contrary to the general impression I leave on people . http://t.co/UnmmDtMkUa http://onforb.es/1x8mCLz http://onforb.es/1x8mCLz"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/553954095212421120) 2015-01-10T16:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Odds That The Greek Debt Deal Will Work Are 50/50 At Best: Thats the considered opinion of some over here in . http://t.co/tPP7XY3sNj http://onforb.es/1HUhgt0 http://onforb.es/1HUhgt0"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/621965106822299648) 2015-07-17T08:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"American Job Growth Good: Wage Growth Not So Much @Forbes http://onforb.es/1OTGOQO http://onforb.es/1OTGOQO"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/685837962123284482) 2016-01-09T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DorfmanJeffrey Yes but one can also be unemployed but not count ("dissuaded" workers). If rations hv changed then old nairu not right"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/685848056336629760) 2016-01-09T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PoppyNoor You're a full time student Something you might have informed readers about no It does make rather a difference to your tale"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/997442406315372545) 2018-05-18T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is why progressive economics is a nonsense. We already know the answer have done for a century. Don't subsidise the capitalists fine the consumers instead - Pigou Taxes. Works efficient equitable why not Well progressive economists don't like things that actually work Among progressive economists a key argument is about how the state should seek to shift investment into green industries. Should it subsidise the private sector as the US Inflation Reduction does Or nationalise it as for example @Cmmonwealth argue /1 https://t.co/XyR0FxeVFV Among progressive economists a key argument is"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1669998735735111681) 2023-06-17T09:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"London's most ludicrous share RC365 Holdings. Up [--] million on issuing [----] credit cards Phsaw $RCGH https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/04/ridiculous-rc-365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-27-on-credit-card-agreement https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/04/ridiculous-rc-365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-27-on-credit-card-agreement"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1676199369236701184) 2023-07-04T12:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"London's getting odd HK based financial stocks. RC365 Holding. A 30k valuation for issuing affiliate credit cards For each credit card issued Nonsense $RCGH https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/06/no-no-rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-25-we-refuse-to-believe-this-is-worth-it https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/06/no-no-rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-25-we-refuse-to-believe-this-is-worth-it"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1676907143385997313) 2023-07-06T10:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"$RCGH RC365 holding now back down into the 20's. We did warn all along that this was going to happen didn't we https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/325379/rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-down-81%25-from-peak-we https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/325379/rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-down-81%25-from-peak-we"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1704423995636932959) 2023-09-20T09:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"$AIRE This is impressive up 5000% on introduction to Nasdaq for reAlpha Tech. The next 82% fall is not quite so fun. And all about timeshare sales of AirBnb properties. But with that added sprinkle of AI. No really AI v important that. https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/328891/reaplha-tech-nasdaq-aire-stock-up-5-000%25 https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/328891/reaplha-tech-nasdaq-aire-stock-up-5-000%25"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1716721299043569761) 2023-10-24T07:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"$DFCH it's the little notes in the Distributed Finance release. It looks RoyaleLife is going to be a great big roiling gorgeous business failure. With possibly added excitements The boss bankrupt in [----] on S Time rich list last year now.snigger https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/332517/distribution-finance-capital-lon-dfch-down-31%25 https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/332517/distribution-finance-capital-lon-dfch-down-31%25"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1729892645554606355) 2023-11-29T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@veronica_humble I always find "government" to be a useful answer to these sorts of screw ups"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2008231032617586730) 2026-01-05T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"UBI gives massive boost to culture and the arts Umm why Ahh that's why. Workshy luvvies don't even have to bother with the Starbucks application process. You're happy to be taxed to pay for that right Great to see Bristol's Green councillors making case for a trial Universal Basic Income - a guaranteed payment that would have huge benefits for groups like care leavers and give a massive boost to culture and the arts. https://t.co/zeuXmDXs5x Great to see Bristol's Green councillors making case for a trial Universal Basic Income - a guaranteed payment that would have huge benefits for groups"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2013305089134412261) 2026-01-19T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@nmrqip No no it's supersekkret. Special speshul use in Llantrisant"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014431671072804910) 2026-01-22T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek So when do we start breaking into hospitals for their valuable stores of old X-Rays"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014754486531543195) 2026-01-23T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek A quick calc (without thinking about processing costs tsk) has the Royal Mint paying $20k a tonne for old X-Rays. So there's a plot line for the next revival of Del-Boy"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2014775769705128332) 2026-01-23T19:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The real reason that French wealth tax failed. It's Hayek not Laffer. Lack of knowledge of the initial state not changed behaviour. https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/failure-by-hayek-is-no-better-than-failure-by-laffer https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/failure-by-hayek-is-no-better-than-failure-by-laffer"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015357315935809608) 2026-01-25T09:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Suitpossum I think that starts with an error. The FT is not set up to serve capitalists. Rather the haute bourgeoisie who serve capitalists. From that all other errors flow"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2015863614469509293) 2026-01-26T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@PerfumedDandy @izakaminska @mbauwens True true - I often think that a goodly part of the rage against neoliberalism is that the money in finance means that the profs pols those Great and Good have to live a little further down Hampstead Hill than they think they ought to"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016080582850015441) 2026-01-27T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So How Do We Execute My Evil Plot by @worstall Such an evil plan. All the members of Patriotic Millionaires must release their tax returns. Or even we release them for them. https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/so-how-do-we-execute-my-evil-plotutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/so-how-do-we-execute-my-evil-plotutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016081760291807438) 2026-01-27T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No that's not right. It's the political system of the European Union that is to be damned to perdition to roast in Hellfire for all eternity. The place people cuisines weather all wholly great and wonderful to live among. Love Europe love Europeans I think its super cool that we have a beautiful museum continent whose main export is holidays I just dont want to be part of it. Love Europe love Europeans I think its super cool that we have a beautiful museum continent whose main export is holidays I just dont want to be part of it"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016088288382132274) 2026-01-27T09:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sam_Dumitriu Re 1). Not quite. Investment is a cost of being in business. Profits are revenues minus costs. So obviously costs of investment are deducted from revenues before profits calculated"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016180994122850540) 2026-01-27T16:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DiscountedTr The actual truth is a little more prosaic. Sure he's a good investor. But because his funding comes from investing the insurance float his cost of funds is a couple of points below Treasuries. Easier to do well at that point even if still not wholly easy"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016185141215768669) 2026-01-27T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mualphaxi For all the little this means - yes I approve. Far better to give $100 million to actual people than to some or other movement or collection of the usual NGOs like Soros or Bloomberg does"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016240138506948910) 2026-01-27T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SamBuntz Hmm dunno. People have been making kebabs since forever. But the doner kebab seems to have been invented in 1970s Berlin. Innovation's an odd thing. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/20/doner-kebabs-celebration-50-years-berlin-germany https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/20/doner-kebabs-celebration-50-years-berlin-germany"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016442925945622725) 2026-01-28T09:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@John_Stepek Brown selling then Well you know. But Brown announcing he was going to sell before he did Monstrous idiocy"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016618809423958036) 2026-01-28T21:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@kenanmalik Didn't The Who drag a dummer up from the audience when Keith Moon fell over"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016619359938998464) 2026-01-28T21:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@darengb @Afinetheorem This is the correct answer. If you don't have to invest in the next generation of a product then you can cut costs massively. Think how much profit Shell would be making if it wasn't investing at all This is also true of s/ware. The strategy runs out of time sure but works now"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016770788494377276) 2026-01-29T07:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The joy of this is - well according to legend that is - that steak frites was introduced to Paris by Wellington's troops in 1815/18. Yes really this is in fact a British invention. Our cuisine is so rich so good that we just give away signature dishes to Frenchies d'ye see Steak frites really might be the goated meal Combines two of the most enjoyable foods there are complemented perfectly in both taste and nutrition cheese would send it to the moon (just eat cheeseburger theory). Michael Jordan famously ate steak and baked potato before every https://t.co/xfWVHPMt8k Steak frites really might"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016780900659253470) 2026-01-29T07:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@MrRBourne Ah war stories now is it Lemme tell you youngster about that commute home from 10th and F to Mount Vernon the day that 'plane came down on the 14th St bridge in a snowstorm. Now if I can just get my teeth in properly I'll tell you"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016791562005393523) 2026-01-29T08:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mplsgordon2 I did once write an article for publication (you know real newspaper stuff they pay me) where I was more forceful about Charlie and the libel lawyer insisted upon that being edited out. Sigh"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2016933846919368729) 2026-01-29T17:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Of Course We Pay Water Bills. Who Else In Buggery Is There by @worstall Another attempt to get the basics into the heads of those who write The Guardian. Isometric exercise obvs. https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-we-pay-water-bills-whoutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-we-pay-water-bills-whoutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017200728800944405) 2026-01-30T11:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@teortaxesTex Ain't that the truth. I've a new rare earths separation process (well old idea and concentrate to individual REs is what is meant) and the only unknown is what $ does it scale at Which is the expensive thing to find out of course"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017279716214943929) 2026-01-30T16:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@anne_hegerty @BradfemlyWalsh Parts of the family have that black black hair that looks Andean. As g granny was born in Callao and her mother was deffo a bit of a goer (deffo) then maybe some romancing with a mestizo Or could be just the Celt coming through which is boring. Also urgh Celts in my family"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017293201678147631) 2026-01-30T17:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@RianCFFWhitton Natural gas is difficult to export (LNG ain't free to make after all). Conversions then export of the product (ethane say other plastics possibly) can make sense. And with people trying to prevent LNG trains great sense. As with the crude export ban but you could ship refined"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017294004405043466) 2026-01-30T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Glorious. So laddies defraud JP Morgan. But employment contract means JPM must pay the defence lawyers. Defence lawyers have vast bank on the ropes JPM must pay their fees. $114 million later they're asking for another $20 million. Heh snigger. truly the most fun courtroom article Ive written: https://t.co/3EsJuPuI00 https://t.co/zp7xPinwhn truly the most fun courtroom article Ive written: https://t.co/3EsJuPuI00 https://t.co/zp7xPinwhn"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017296890786652609) 2026-01-30T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mattyglesias Linguistic difference more than anything. What USians call "hiking" we culturally and linguistically correct peeps would probably call "hill walking". Even "fell walking". But then there's no telling rebellious colonials where they've gone wrong now is there"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017336515320234083) 2026-01-30T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mcdonnelljp Well yes but think of a country wherethe actions of the one individual criminal (rather than a criminal in government) actually changes the national murder rate so significantly. TBF that's a place with not all that much murder around right"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017342475019460758) 2026-01-30T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NoahRettberg Well yeah. But when that local employer goes bust it also wipes out the locality. And yes it does happen. Seen it happen"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017343326656086088) 2026-01-30T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AndrewOrlowski Four times more energy than you put in Eh Possibly - possibly - move 4x heat than the energy it takes to move it but that's different"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017529529145626678) 2026-01-31T09:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lippyent Not that they bought it from Sears but family friends bought a house in containers - inside the first door shovels and gravel at the back of the last bathtaps - and erected it on a hill at Big Sur in 1970s Lovely place with a [--] ft A frame window in the lounge"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017544652283359692) 2026-01-31T10:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SteveDavies365 @sethharpesq I run with Hal Varian here. GDP doesn't deal well with free. As TFP uses market prices as the measure of output value that's where - I think - the snafu is in the measurement. Another description of same thing it's all turning up as consumer surplus"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017595093830586866) 2026-01-31T13:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@WatsonLadd @AndrewOrlowski It's not a heater it's a pump of heat"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017622937042317404) 2026-01-31T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@watzi2w @MichaelAArouet It's also true the South was Byzantine for many more centuries than the North (which had a heavy German influence the Lombards) then Norman then Spanish (usually ruled by the idiot son of the Sp King). The S of Italy is really more comparable to Greece or Andalucia than N Italy"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017656829174501842) 2026-01-31T17:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@S_Surprenant Yeah but rule by technocrats as opposed to the first few hundred in the Boston phone book"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017708787772129705) 2026-01-31T21:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ah so I get the fame and the groupies if I'm wrong But then given I've been following all these years the wrong strategy then where are they Beat that Zeno @worstall Being right makes you few friends. Being right a decade too early makes you no friends at all. Though you do have a standing lunch/dinner invitation if you are ever in these northern climes @worstall Being right makes you few friends. Being right a decade too early makes you no friends at all. Though you do have a standing lunch/dinner invitation if you are ever in these northern climes"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/2017860086664778151) 2026-02-01T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Well Done To Poppy Noor A Masterly Dig At The Guardian In The Guardian @PoppyNoor http://www.continentaltelegraph.com/newspaper-watch/well-done-to-poppy-noor-a-masterly-dig-at-the-guardian-in-the-guardian/ http://www.continentaltelegraph.com/newspaper-watch/well-done-to-poppy-noor-a-masterly-dig-at-the-guardian-in-the-guardian/"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/997408256682348544) 2018-05-18T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PoppyNoor "I'm a millennial I've not any money for rent" is pretty prominent there. "I'm a full time student" is not. Hmm"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/997446500203581440) 2018-05-18T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Astonishing how much of that is used fishing gear isn't it Not in fact plastic straws Another crate catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. https://t.co/iM7WvXnCiv Another crate catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. https://t.co/iM7WvXnCiv"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813199755264090506) 2024-07-16T13:11Z [----] followers, 1.5M engagements
"Another crate catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812850133320528288) 2024-07-15T14:02Z 347.5K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Standard idiocy. Adam Smith explained it [---] years ago. If Jeff's spent $800 million on a yacht then the other people now have the $800 million and Jeff has the yacht. So the money has already gone to the other people who have the $800 million. Remember the universal truth https://t.co/hYfqbStwsk Remember the universal truth https://t.co/hYfqbStwsk"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940136192290488540) 2025-07-01T19:51Z [----] followers, 697.6K engagements
"Remember the universal truth"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1940050790455873796) 2025-07-01T14:12Z 149.2K followers, 2.1M engagements
"16 million disabled That's like [--] 22% of the entire population. I'd suggest gently at first that the problem is too wide a definition of disabled. 16M disabled people in the UK but only 3.7M get PIP thats under [--] in [--]. Now Labour's planning to slash benefits for 1M people. This isnt about job creation; its a calculated attack on our most vulnerable. Enough is enough. https://t.co/SIr4RUZKeH 16M disabled people in the UK but only 3.7M get PIP thats under [--] in [--]. Now Labour's planning to slash benefits for 1M people. This isnt about job creation; its a calculated attack on our most vulnerable."
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1900906708907508142) 2025-03-15T13:47Z [----] followers, 169.8K engagements
"16M disabled people in the UK but only 3.7M get PIP thats under [--] in [--]. Now Labour's planning to slash benefits for 1M people. This isnt about job creation; its a calculated attack on our most vulnerable. Enough is enough. https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/disability-benefits-pip-labour-cuts-b2715544.html https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/disability-benefits-pip-labour-cuts-b2715544.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1900843199712657708) 2025-03-15T09:35Z [----] followers, 214.3K engagements
"We are not a serious nation. Not if we're getting our Middle East policy from a chef. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "It's concerning that we're sending jets out to the middle east when all the talk should be of de-escalation" "If Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government really wanted to show they were serious about de-escalating they should stop https://t.co/WzOIzpuBz8 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "It's concerning that we're sending jets out to the middle east when all the talk should be of de-escalation" "If Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government really wanted to"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1934336286044848451) 2025-06-15T19:44Z [----] followers, 59.2K engagements
"Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "It's concerning that we're sending jets out to the middle east when all the talk should be of de-escalation" "If Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government really wanted to show they were serious about de-escalating they should stop selling arms to Israel""
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1934250731684397114) 2025-06-15T14:04Z 120.5K followers, 1.5M engagements
"@almostneonuk I recall a survey from a few years back. More than 50% of the plastic in the oceans is indeed fishing waste and scrap"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1813263624678346840) 2024-07-16T17:25Z [----] followers, 46.7K engagements
"This is the level of economic understanding that a First in PPE at Oxford gets you folks. Much of our economic and political establishment did PPE at Oxford. Aren't we the lucky ones My little brother asked me why everything suddenly seems so fucked - and this is about as simple an answer as I could give. https://t.co/MZ4SVU3ZDT My little brother asked me why everything suddenly seems so fucked - and this is about as simple an answer as I could give. https://t.co/MZ4SVU3ZDT"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1819373392656539942) 2024-08-02T14:03Z [----] followers, 314.5K engagements
"Because you abject cretin it's more expensive to make. Plant-based milk is better for our health better for the planet and no animals get hurt in the making of it. So why are we still payingmorefor it Gails Bakery Its [----] time to stop ripping off people making sustainable choices. https://t.co/AXORVuOD6v https://t.co/MdSbb22YFp Plant-based milk is better for our health better for the planet and no animals get hurt in the making of it. So why are we still payingmorefor it Gails Bakery Its [----] time to stop ripping off people making sustainable choices. https://t.co/AXORVuOD6v"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1908250389079904568) 2025-04-04T20:08Z [----] followers, 72.4K engagements
"Plant-based milk is better for our health better for the planet and no animals get hurt in the making of it. So why are we still payingmorefor it Gails Bakery Its [----] time to stop ripping off people making sustainable choices. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/peta-urge-gails-drop-extra-charge-plant-milk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/peta-urge-gails-drop-extra-charge-plant-milk"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1908203149850034611) 2025-04-04T17:00Z 81.6K followers, 160.9K engagements
"Lammy's slavery reparations. ICJ judge (same court as Chagos) says [--] trillion. More than UK household wealth. All pensions all housing all shares bonds cash and the furniture too. For being made better off than in West Africa. I have an Anglo Saxon phrase for you here"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1888138183071686990) 2025-02-08T08:09Z [----] followers, 68K engagements
"Apparently the judge doesn't like Phoebe very much. Poor poor Phoebe"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1841385291891822667) 2024-10-02T07:50Z [----] followers, 90.6K engagements
"Well misstated. The Laffer Curve says "sometimes" the best way to gain more revenue is to raise tax rates. Also sometimes the best way to gain more revenue is to lower tax rates. "Sometimes" is the vital word in the contention. The 'Laffer Curve' is a fancy way of saying that the best way to help the poor is to cut taxes for the rich. That proposition has proven to be flat-out wrong every time a rightwing government has tried it. The 'Laffer Curve' is a fancy way of saying that the best way to help the poor is to cut taxes for the rich. That proposition has proven to be flat-out wrong every"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949073133928948214) 2025-07-26T11:43Z [----] followers, 70.4K engagements
"The 'Laffer Curve' is a fancy way of saying that the best way to help the poor is to cut taxes for the rich. That proposition has proven to be flat-out wrong every time a rightwing government has tried it"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949050481260548601) 2025-07-26T10:13Z 114.8K followers, 145.3K engagements
"No he's not right. Switzerland has no capital gains tax and inheritance T starts at 0.1% 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 Victoria Derbyshire says Switzerland's wealth tax raises [---] billion. Switzerland has GDP of c. [---] billion. The UK has GDP of c. [---] trillion. @ZackPolanski is right to say a UK wealth tax could raise *much* more than in Switzerland. #bbclaurak Victoria Derbyshire says Switzerland's wealth tax raises [---] billion."
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1980193192223101420) 2025-10-20T08:43Z [----] followers, 89.3K engagements
"Victoria Derbyshire says Switzerland's wealth tax raises [---] billion. Switzerland has GDP of c. [---] billion. The UK has GDP of c. [---] trillion. @ZackPolanski is right to say a UK wealth tax could raise *much* more than in Switzerland. #bbclaurak"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979835103980470299) 2025-10-19T09:00Z 19.6K followers, 171.4K engagements
"Fascinating. So Germany uses paid for insurance competitive markets. UK tax and NHS. Germany spends a little more than UK. But gains 3x the beds and 2x the doctors So err it's the tax and NHS structure that is inefficient then The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed Germany has [--] hospital beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people France has [---] beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people UK has [---] Beds and [---] Doctors per [----] people Population Economies and demographics are comparable The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed Germany has [--] hospital beds and [----] Doctors per"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1738956450720817373) 2023-12-24T16:15Z [----] followers, 75K engagements
"The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed Germany has [--] hospital beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people France has [---] beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people UK has [---] Beds and [---] Doctors per [----] people Population Economies and demographics are comparable UK healthcare has a staffing crisis. Gvt instead of investing in training and attracting home grown healthcare staff through policies to ensure good wages and terms and conditions allows their colonialist theft from the world's poorest countries to fill the gaps . 1/4. https://t.co/tV8k1rLMoH UK healthcare has a staffing crisis."
[X Link](https://x.com/Picss3o/status/1738868891906912537) 2023-12-24T10:27Z [----] followers, 131.3K engagements
"How stupid is Starmer "The school doesnt have to pass this on to the parents in fees." - VAT on private schools. Does he think there's a 20% profit margin that can take the strain Or wages drop by 20% Or what Where's that 20% to come from if not parents He's that stupid"
[X Link](https://x.com/worstall/status/1707377945700937971) 2023-09-28T12:53Z [----] followers, 38.6K engagements
"Your regular reminder. Attlee/Bevan didn't "build" the NHS. They stole every piece of extant healthcare infrastructure. The first NHS built hospital didn't open until [----]. Greater government spending on healthcare will always cost us less overall. If we could build the NHS in the wake of WWII we can fund staff pay in-housing and preventative healthcare in [----] Greater government spending on healthcare will always cost us less overall. If we could build the NHS in the wake of WWII we can fund staff pay in-housing and preventative healthcare in 2025"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1944684196481413288) 2025-07-14T09:03Z [----] followers, 45.3K engagements
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@worstall Tim Worstall
Tim Worstall posts on X about in the, money, gas, more than the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social Influence
Social category influence finance #947 countries #5063 travel destinations 3.55% celebrities 1.48% stocks 1.48% technology brands 0.89% premier league 0.3% champions league 0.3% exchanges 0.3%
Social topic influence in the 12.72%, money 6.51%, gas 4.44%, more than 3.25%, inflation 2.96%, the world 2.96%, gdp 2.37%, investment 2.07%, london 2.07%, the first 1.78%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @carygold @arthur_eckart @timgoldfinch @davidmetroland @grok @etadpole @teladis94074 @henriccont @thomassirianni2 @l_lucullus @helgy2 @perkurowski @buckingfankers @david11359148 @naomilwood @pinkcasso13 @bemused21 @dmcwilliamsuk @arthureckart @llucullus
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@CasinoCapital Yeah they'll weight it by the basket purchased. So T Clubcard will be on that percentage of shopping that happens at T and those specific items that are cheaper. It'll change a bit. And only for the first year - in Y [--] the effects of clubcard will already be in the starting no"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@sturgios Nicely arch. I'd be prepared to bet substantial sums on the money coming from privileged access to foreign exchange at absurd rates. Something oft available to those with privileged access to higher grade clerics in that country"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The interest rate on student loans is high because someone somewhere has to pay for all those loans never repaid and so written off. It's simply expensive to do this. Perhaps we should just have fewer people going to university fewer universities and so a cheaper system"
X Link 2026-02-02T18:02Z [----] followers, 22.1K engagements
"@Bemused21 @carygold @ETadpole @TIMGOLDFINCH @DMcWilliams_UK @Davidmetroland @arthur_eckart @ThomasSirianni2 @l_lucullus @HenricCont @teladis94074 @David11359148 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What emails should be in the Epstein files but aren't Need some inspiration here. The more ludicrous absurd the better. And of course untrue"
X Link 2026-02-04T08:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A prediction - bad fires in Spain and Portugal this summer/autumn. Winter rains green springs mean more fire load to burn later. For every summer is hot and dry enough to allow fires. Just mark this down to reference it in [--] months when we're told climate change means burning As a result of the intense rainfall over the past few weeks soils across most of Spain are now close to full saturation (between 90% and 100%) setting the stage for an exceptionally fertile and visually stunning spring. https://t.co/ziHhc42ngz As a result of the intense rainfall over the past few weeks soils across most"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@sc_cath Quite. Their measure of wealth does not include any income streams or services from govt. So you could do as Sweden vastly reduce income - and presumably consumption - inequality by fiscal means but you've still got exactly the wealth inequality started with. Not useful"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The EU's offer. If UK taxpayers cough up for the loan to Ukraine then a couple of UK companies - capitalists - might get some orders. Erm no ta. Even bugger off. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/eu-deal-on-ukraine-loan-could-boost-uk-if-it-agrees-to-help-pay-costs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/eu-deal-on-ukraine-loan-could-boost-uk-if-it-agrees-to-help-pay-costs"
X Link 2026-02-05T08:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oh Gawd. This is @RichardJMurphy levels of non-thinking. Bond yields are nominal rates - including inflation (technically expected). UK inflation is higher than French. Therefore nominal yields are higher. Subtract the local inflation rate to get the real yield. Sheesh. France just passed a disaster budget. Its debt to GDP is 118% and rising. The doom loop is confirmed reform is proving impossible. And yet French [--] year bond yields are at around 3.5% compared to our gilt yields of up to 4.9%. https://t.co/nFxpyg1sj1 France just passed a disaster budget. Its debt to GDP is 118% and rising."
X Link 2026-02-05T10:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Telegraph's looking for a senior money writer. They demand numeracy. Tough demand there for the journalistic classes"
X Link 2026-02-05T10:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BMA_James_Steen Once again no one is doubting that we can have free university education. We still have the "but for how many" question. [--] to 10% of the age cohort Sure. 50% Nope. Finland for example sends 20% (c.) to uni. Another 20% to trade schools"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @TIMGOLDFINCH @HenricCont @David11359148 @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @ThomasSirianni2 @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @TIMGOLDFINCH @HenricCont @David11359148 @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @ThomasSirianni2 @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What an odd thing to say: "Somehow the grooming gangs of Rotherham cause more visceral disgust and outcry than exploitation of these equally vulnerable victims procured for the lusts of the wealthy." Err yes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-peter-mandelson-labour https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/06/keir-starmer-jeffrey-epstein-peter-mandelson-labour"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Seen this The English equivalent is stout bird shouting Rule Britannia as the Brigade of Guards - in full pomp - march along Beachy Head and every RN battleship ever pounds France into the puddle of garlicky cheese which is its rightful fate. Marvellous https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a_mh-v02-Tw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a_mh-v02-Tw"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It's such a weird demand. Palantir It's just a software company. Why must this be ousted Palantir has no place in our country. Deyank the UK starting with ending every government contract with monstrous tech firms. Palantir has no place in our country. Deyank the UK starting with ending every government contract with monstrous tech firms"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@julianHjessop See Reform solving real world problems even before taking office"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@l_lucullus @arthur_eckart @ThomasSirianni2 @carygold @TIMGOLDFINCH @HenricCont @David11359148 @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"True this: House prices are actually falling in real terms falling even more as a multiple of earnings. https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/house-prices-are-falling-sorry-they-are https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/house-prices-are-falling-sorry-they-are"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"That's brave the new Fed Chair is trying to bring back the cardigan as waistcoat ("vest" to USians) look for formal wear. Umm yeah OK. If we take that statement literally that is not what standard theory would say. To clarify for non economists modern macro theory explain business cycles as responses to unforeseen events we call "shocks." You need some way of identifying the shocks and estimating their If we take that statement literally that is not what standard theory would say. To clarify for non economists modern macro theory explain business cycles as responses to unforeseen events we"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@s8mb @CW_Architect The Cumberland Circular. Not wholly obvious there's a point to that"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@alexfmac Portugal's not been any better. Believe me. In fact the local irrigation dam is so full they're releasing water. Which is sorta OK it's just that then means a raging torrent where there's normally a road or two"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Oren Cass whines: "But actual business investment has declined to an average of [---] percent of G.D.P. over the past decade from [---] percent in the 1960s" Investment is a cost. Why is he whining that costs have gone down https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/capitalism-industry-financialization.html"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Gordon Brown uses current events to justify what he wants to do anyway. Funny how politics works eh https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/this-event-perfectly-justifies-what-i-want-to-do-anyway https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/this-event-perfectly-justifies-what-i-want-to-do-anyway"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@kickingmustang @TIMGOLDFINCH Real wages are rising. That is wages are rising faster than inflation. House prices are rising by less than inflation. Thus the ratio of house prices to wages is falling - houses are becoming cheaper. This is not a difficult concept"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SZamparutti @DavidMo50860521 Bringing the clap home - allegedly - from an adventure might still be something frowned upon. Possibly"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"You'd think that an actual accounting academic would know that corporation tax comes off first. So the CGT and dividend tax rates are those numbers plus corporation tax. Prem might even know that but what's knowledge when there're political memes to create Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45% + National Insurance. Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%: dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%; No NIC levied. Rich appeased. Difference in rates/NIC fuels tax abuse industry public purse robbed of billions. https://t.co/AWUVrBroPM Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45% + National Insurance."
X Link 2026-02-09T10:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Don't believe it until it's denied: "Keir Starmer not resigning as prime minister - Downing Street" We can hope eh"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@arthur_eckart @carygold @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@carygold @arthur_eckart @teladis94074 @HenricCont @Davidmetroland @bourdeau_ed @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@RobinBoardmanUK Erm 'Ello If you've higher yields and also revenue from power then why does it require government to scale it You've insisted it is more profitable already. Therefore it can be privately financed. And if it cannot be privately financed then it's not more profitable is it"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@faisalislam True people have come to grief playing FX and borrowing like that. Polly Peck being an obvious example (even if that was deliberate)"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Those Congo mines for coltan. Very bad very bad indeed. It's the absence of proper capitalist mining that's the problem d'ye see https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-problem-is-the-absence-of-capitalism https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-problem-is-the-absence-of-capitalism"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@RSGopalan3 @Handrev The Bank of England In a French experiment with money Not a lot"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@tjbate2000 Ah now you're going well over my head. And to be fair outside my interest. I usually run with macro is the math nerds gurning over their slide rules and micro is what actually matters. This could be because I've not the maths for macro could be because I truly believe it"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@BenGoldsmith @rtsrichard Who knows could have been that Nigel knew Chris Booker well and so had views on the Levels etc"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"How weird. I always thought dyslexia was a simple problem with pattern recognition and stuff not [--] points off an IQ. Every time you use a VPN A child dies https://t.co/9wfJMPxbnF Every time you use a VPN A child dies https://t.co/9wfJMPxbnF"
X Link 2025-07-30T07:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Man's an idiot. The British government owns all oil and gas in the UK. That's why the British government gets paid for all oil and gas drilled and lifted in the UK. We would fight this in GM.👇🏻 Communities across the North would face all the danger and disruption while big oil and gas walk away with all the profits. 1/2 We would fight this in GM.👇🏻 Communities across the North would face all the danger and disruption while big oil and gas walk away with all the profits. 1/2"
X Link 2025-08-26T08:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is absurd. The RNLI has always been a volunteer society. It cannot be proof of "failing" that it still is. Quite the contrary it's proof that Bruke was right. The people can get together and do things - even public goods - without government being required. It's a sign of a failing society that vital emergency services like the RNLI and mountain rescue are charities nearly fully staffed by volunteers rather than publicly funded agencies. It's a sign of a failing society that vital emergency services like the RNLI and mountain rescue are charities nearly fully staffed by volunteers"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@faisalislam Erm. Don't you borrow where you think it will be cheap Say borrow now in a declining currency (where interest rates are lower than you expect the fall in value to be) and then pay back in that then cheaper currency in the future Ie borrowing in is a vote of non-confidence"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@cjsnowdon The Harvard student walkout mentioned. Mankiw's class Econ [---]. "We demand Keynes proper economics not this markets shit". In Nov. Well OK. It's just micro is first semester and macro is second starting Jan"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@tjbate2000 To an extent - an extent only - this is the Lucas Critique. As soon as you have a macroeconomic plan then everyone changes their behaviour because of the plan"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Dr_W_E_Bulmer [----] was before capital gains tax. So entrepreneurs were not taxed on the value of building a company while rentiers were upon income from stocks of capital. Seems a useful distinction to make"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rjcroton You seem to think that a billionaire is someone who has a billion in the bank. Snigger"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Kaleidicworld Much the same is true of financial regulation too. Sure Big Bang allowed competition. But the rulebook got ever fatter as well"
X Link 2026-01-25T07:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@duncanrobinson [--] billion for somewhere for politicians to park their arses We could buy tents on South Georgia Island for that. We should in fact. Locate the politicians where they do us less damage"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Benin Bronzes were made from the manillas used in payment for slaves. They are rightfully therefore part of the reparations for Nigeria's involvement in slavery. We should therefore give them all to Dianne Abbott. https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/cambridges-return-of-100-benin-bronzes-puts-british-museum-on-the-spot https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/cambridges-return-of-100-benin-bronzes-puts-british-museum-on-the-spot"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Of Course Jeff Bezos Should Fire Hundreds @ Washington Post by @worstall Too few grasp that @JeffBezos is trying to deal with a real problem that requires desperately needs a solution. https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-jeff-bezos-should-fireutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-jeff-bezos-should-fireutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@jimthegiant If you actually look at the analysis they themselves did of the scheme [--] million (of the c. 100m costs) of the benefits came from the artists being paid feeling better. That's not a useful CBA it really isn't"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@teladis94074 @carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @helgy2 @Davidmetroland @HenricCont @bourdeau_ed @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@teladis94074 @carygold @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @ThomasSirianni2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @helgy2 @Davidmetroland @HenricCont @bourdeau_ed @David11359148 @ETadpole @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @PerKurowski @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@carygold @HenricCont @David11359148 @TIMGOLDFINCH @ETadpole @Davidmetroland @ThomasSirianni2 @Bemused21 @DMcWilliams_UK @arthur_eckart @l_lucullus @teladis94074 @PerKurowski @bourdeau_ed @siyahtiri1980 @buckingfankers @Ellis_Greenwood @helgy2 @NaomiLWood @Pinkcasso13 @evehicletalks @AngryFleas @mike_lucullus @wasdawasda2 @T_Whiz @LosSignmakrDeCt @ryanthekeymaker @jbhearn @in_my_hands32 @takeitwithsalt @Jonatha2011Luis @StewartButton @KevinTartis @MikeTho04795078 @KimDriver11 @sioneill @ParkersPlaster1 @MarkJCarney @YouTube @sashayanshin @reformparty_uk @lawyers4britain @pulte @grok"
X Link 2026-02-05T08:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sacha_Lord @ntiaofficial Lordy Be but that's a stupid question. Nero Group - which owns Cafe Nero - paid [--] million in corporation tax for the most recent trading year. Possibly more than the caff next to your conference"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This: "So when we say markets work perfectly under perfect competition perfect substitutes complete markets and fully rational agents were not claiming those conditions hold. Were saying the literature should be built around the violation of these assumptions." This is a deep misunderstanding of how economics works. Economists dont start with unrealistic assumptions to reach irrelevant conclusions. Theorists spell out the assumptions under which an idealized stylized result can be provenand very often that result is an irrelevance This is a deep misunderstanding of how economics works."
X Link 2026-02-12T08:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@sionster @scepticalists Indeed so The reason they're replacing it is that the old (ie few years old) one never could be made to work. Was ruled unfair by the courts even. None of which stops it being a damn fool idiot stupid idea. Of course"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How excellent The Guardian is now onboard. No Representation Without Taxation. This is obvs what they mean when Jim Ratcliffe is told to shut up 'ee's a tax exile see Gonna be an interesting political settlement after that. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/guardian-view-on-sir-jim-ratcliffe-britain-does-not-need-political-lectures-from-a-billionaire-tax-exile https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/guardian-view-on-sir-jim-ratcliffe-britain-does-not-need-political-lectures-from-a-billionaire-tax-exile"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Dutch tax on unrealised capital gains. A current even usual complaint is that financial markets don't think long term. That everyone merely speculates not invests for the future. So now the tax system is going to insist everyone liquidate positions each and every year"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@rjcroton @JackKel84 @CUBE_CFC Ahhh now I understand your position. You are simply ignorant. Well that solves that then"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@jamesharrigan @BrianCAlbrecht Ah yes very apt"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@mariellaf1 Tax is always an opt in for everyone. It is - other than for Americans - always possible to leave the country the taxing jurisdiction. As say all our immigrants have done leaving the tax residency of their birth right"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is joyous "Scrapping the agreement to cover Bank of England losses." Forgive the cretins Lord they know not what they do. 40% of people have less than [---] left at the end of the month after they've covered their essentials. We shouldn't be living like this. We can fight for a future we can all afford. Follow @CostOfLivingAct https://t.co/vYvSsf6O11 40% of people have less than [---] left at the end of the month after they've covered their essentials. We shouldn't be living like this. We can fight for a future we can all afford. Follow @CostOfLivingAct https://t.co/vYvSsf6O11"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Govt is - aha aha - risk free. Given the repayment level on student loans they're not credit risk free are they"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We should thank the Dutch in advance. For this is going to be a disaster. Which will show the rest of us how stupid it would be to tax unrealised capital gains. Sad day in NL the Dutch government is expected to pass a bill introducing a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains. This will destroy long-term strategies kill compounding effects & trigger a wealth exodus of biblical proportions. But they'll pass it anyway. Can't fix stupid. Sad day in NL the Dutch government is expected to pass a bill introducing a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains. This will destroy long-term strategies kill"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:42Z [----] followers, 107.4K engagements
"@KMc_head You can carry forward losses yes but not a credit you're right"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If even the State - yea the fount of all law and power - needs exemptions from planning law in order to get houses built then maybe perhaps it's planning law that needs to change not the granting of an exemption https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/if-the-system-doesnt-work-why-not-change-the-system https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/if-the-system-doesnt-work-why-not-change-the-system"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Fun point isn't it Why should the one man be forced to pay for [------] nurses The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra [------] NHS nurses. It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires. https://t.co/hlXUmBpUhF The anmount of Tax avoided by Jim Ratcliffe's move to Monaco could pay for an extra [------] NHS nurses. It's not immigrants that are the problem. It's billionaires. https://t.co/hlXUmBpUhF"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:42Z [----] followers, 295K engagements
"@mj_cotton There's no such thing as tax avoidance. There's tax compliance - paying the tax the law demands - and tax evasion - not paying the tax the law demands. There is nothing else"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:09Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"@Shiwon_NZ_Ao Excellent. So if as and even when he sells then he should pay. Mere ownership is not income after all"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@iantresman But OK Walmart's suppliers got paid $511 billion that year. If Walmart only makes $1b profit then all suppliers - why would we assume that only farmers have the fun - would get $529b that $18b extra. 3.5% extra. Sure 3.5% is 3.5% but it's hardly a game changer is it"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@glendowerowain I guarantee you that prices do fall at Walmart when global commodity prices do. Olive oil for example. From this: and Walmart's website retail seems to have halved or so as wholesale came down. So you know. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ikapFuI5Cs0 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ikapFuI5Cs0"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"How many monoglot Welsh speakers does Britain have At a guess I'd say the number hovers around zero. [------] people in Britain speak Welsh. [------] people in Britain speak Welsh"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@rjcroton @JackKel84 @CUBE_CFC I even know why CGT is at a different rate. 1) Corporation tax so the full rate is CGT plus CT 2) There's no inflation indexation on CGT 3) Significant work has been put into determining the peak of the Laffer Curve for CGT and it's lower than that for income tax. So you know"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rjcroton @JackKel84 @CUBE_CFC So learn then: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/20/in-which-we-spot-the-laffer-curve-in-the-wild/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/20/in-which-we-spot-the-laffer-curve-in-the-wild/"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@EssenceOfZam @Samueljohn57 @Andrews86495144 @michael_chessum If the English system is privatised the others are not but the English system is better than the other non-privatised ones then nationalising the privatised English system will not make it better will it"
X Link 2026-01-20T13:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@EssenceOfZam @Samueljohn57 @Andrews86495144 @michael_chessum BTW if you think the French water system is fully state run then you're remarkably ignorant of the subject under discussion. https://ideas.repec.org/p/crc/wpaper/0903.html https://ideas.repec.org/p/crc/wpaper/0903.html"
X Link 2026-01-20T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Manchester already gave the world sensible economics - Manchester Liberalism. You know minimal govt free trade rule of law and bugger the rest of it Burnham proposes Manchesterism as an alternative to borrowing to fund the deficit but his Greater Manchester Combined Authority has 1.4bn of debt which is 150m for every year he has been mayor and 825% of its annual revenue Burnham proposes Manchesterism as an alternative to borrowing to fund the deficit but his Greater Manchester Combined Authority has 1.4bn of debt which is 150m for every year he has been mayor and 825% of its annual revenue"
X Link 2026-01-20T20:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ArmandDoma This is true. OTH it's also true that the Victorians did execute a number for "sodomy". In one year I think more than were topped for murder in fact. The bit I'm unsure about is how much was for consensual and how much was rape. (an example child rape: ) https://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1830news.htm https://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/1830news.htm"
X Link 2026-01-21T08:26Z [----] followers, 85.4K engagements
"@asentance Err no. The reason to exclude food is that sometimes food prices go down. Say egg prices after avian 'flu has passed through rather than while it is passing through. Food and fuel are variable that is so not part of core"
X Link 2026-01-21T12:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BradfemlyWalsh These are sweet potatoes yams. Not actual spuds. Also how marvellous that "nosh" has made it into NY tabloid journalism"
X Link 2026-01-21T16:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum What [---] people get paid - FTSE CEOs - is such a trivial portion of the economy that it doesn't even register on population wide measurements. If they all get 20m that's 2b in a 3tr economy. 0.06%. It just won't move the dial on the inequality measure"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum Ah you don't understand then. If we use $2015 then that means we've recalculated everything into the value of [----] $. We have effectively taken inflation the changing value of the $ out of the comparison. And no the poor are richer in real terms. Really. That's just true"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum The Gini - the standard measure of inequality - is described here. It is not highest to lowest. Your second is "real GDP per capita". For the world it's rising: For the UK flat at worst last few years rising over decades. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KDlocations=GB-1W https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-gini-coefficient https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KDlocations=GB-1W https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-gini-coefficient"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Andrews86495144 @EssenceOfZam @FredTitmus @Hughristics @michael_chessum That's what "real" means. "Nominal" GDP is before we account for inflation. "Real" GDP is after we've adjusted for inflation. Seriously please do try to keep up. Grasp the basics of what you're trying to talk about. BTW asset prices are not part of GDP"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Porkchop_EXP Having lived there no. Oh it's fine. SB is OK but incredibly incredibly expensive. Lompoc's a shithole Santa Maria boring SLO is fine but expensive etc. The real rave is the weather. But you can get that anywhere around the Med. See it but don't bother"
X Link 2026-01-21T19:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If you can get 45% of your 'leccie from hydro then yes you can go 100% renewables (it isn't in fact there's still some thermal plant). Great. So which substantial part of Britain do we flood Anyone ready to build that reservoir in Abingdon yet Uruguay's electricity grid going 100% renewable in just five years proves how quick and easy the transition can be and therefore how the failure of other countries to do the same is inexcusable Uruguay's electricity grid going 100% renewable in just five years proves how quick and easy the transition can be and therefore how the failure of other"
X Link 2026-01-22T08:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Action Aid is to stop sponsoring children and instead "invest" in movements. "Sounds like these throbbers want to take money away from poor African kids and deliver it to grifting arseholes like them instead" Comment on the blog from Marius"
X Link 2026-01-22T09:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DearTrebor1973 Could be. There are people trying to revive the idea right now and I'd love to see their NPV caclulation"
X Link 2026-01-22T11:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"As PJ O'Rourke pointed out the British eat fried guppies. Yummy too. Fried sprats/whitebait (mini herring) are a more traditional English food than fish and chips which took off in the late 19th century. Sprats are recorded as a dish here in the 17th c and are probably older. They have been fried and battered BEFORE we ever did that to cod. They https://t.co/nitmtF0j9Z Fried sprats/whitebait (mini herring) are a more traditional English food than fish and chips which took off in the late 19th century. Sprats are recorded as a dish here in the 17th c and are probably older. They have been"
X Link 2026-01-22T14:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The alarming good sense of the British public. Also why we need to retain juries. @worstall @Artemisfornow Another. When the insane Jim Anderton was Chief Constable of Manchester almost a third of all the cases in Mcr Crown Court were for indecency in a public place ie gay men having sex in public toilets. The juries simply acquitted all of them. Eventually the HO checked him. @worstall @Artemisfornow Another. When the insane Jim Anderton was Chief Constable of Manchester almost a third of all the cases in Mcr Crown Court were for indecency in a public place ie gay men having sex in public"
X Link 2026-01-22T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is how I know I'm not dim but also am not clever. I skip through tra la the early parts of such tests and come to a screeching halt with these. No idea. This is general don't get pictures photos got to page [--] in Topography for Toddlers. The higher realms just a mystery. This is a mental rotation test (MRT). Theyre commonly used in IQ tests. Which two images are the same as the original image https://t.co/mQzRVDeRvb This is a mental rotation test (MRT). Theyre commonly used in IQ tests. Which two images are the same as the original image https://t.co/mQzRVDeRvb"
X Link 2026-01-22T16:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@MattBrookes3 @shivmalik Quite. And who would believe that governments in the middle - Blair Brown etc - would not have spent the money anyway Anyone really think we'd have got through [----] without spending it Or the shrieks of "austerity" as spending continued to rise post-2010"
X Link 2026-01-22T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So just a general question. Anyone got some old X-Ray film You know say an entire radiology department full Couple of hundred tonnes More Can't say why of course supersekkret. But just thought I'd ask. You'd not have to pay me much for me to get rid of it for you"
X Link 2026-01-22T19:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AdamPollock Why would nurses be any less fond of free stuff than any other humans"
X Link 2026-01-23T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Michael Heseltine used the same tailor as Jim Prior. Hesie made the mistake of asking for suits be made to fit. Prior proper gentry insisted they be made like they came from a grandpa with hunchback uneven limbs. Good Lord these boys will be buying their own furniture next"
X Link 2026-01-23T20:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is why The English invented the "public house""
X Link 2026-01-23T20:38Z [----] followers, 115.2K engagements
"@MattBrookes3 Furthest north I've lived was Moscow (so Edinburgh latitide sorta) and [--] or [--] hours of daylight explains vodka pretty well yes. By mid-Feb you also understand the phrase "cabin fever" pretty well too"
X Link 2026-01-24T07:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@hiltonholloway The "gin palaces" were designed with exactly that effect in mind. Even the loos of some of the grander ones can still slightly startle today. The Princess Louise at Holborn for example"
X Link 2026-01-24T07:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ASouthen91055 @kitten_beloved I have a feeling that some of that - some perhaps - was that The Monks were really half The Strawbs trying to do punk"
X Link 2026-01-24T08:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 Aha so I have learned my new thing for the day already by [--] am. How blessed this day is therefore"
X Link 2026-01-24T09:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PolemicTMM What are thre numbers of you're not using red diesel That is fully taxed derv And umm is red derv allowed for gen sets"
X Link 2026-01-24T11:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Slavery hindered US growth not promoted it. Interesting and important recent research. Should - but won't of course - deter those idiots calling for reparations. https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/23/how-slavery-held-back-growth-looking-across-the-river/ https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/23/how-slavery-held-back-growth-looking-across-the-river/"
X Link 2026-01-24T11:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@whitesundesert Every bogan with a hammer climbed aboard that one. Including several who hammered nails through live mains cables. Only once each mind"
X Link 2026-01-24T16:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews Where is Nvidia's profit made Where the chip design is done - after all they don't even make them TSMC does that. So where should profit be assigned Where the IP is. Where is that The US. So your problem is HMRC does have a little guide on how corp tax works"
X Link 2026-01-24T18:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews Brooks used to be an HMRC inspector before he decided to downgrade to alarmist journalism"
X Link 2026-01-24T19:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 @IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews His stories on Vodafone were umm slanted. Basically the [--] b was what he thought tax law should have been not what it was. So you know agenda"
X Link 2026-01-25T07:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This a fun observation. For now think a bit - as a private investor you'll never buy at less than spot for physical. But you'll near always sell at significantly less than spot. Not a good deal is it The number of times spivs have exploited this to defraud in other metals. Buying gold and silver is relatively easy. Selling it not so much. As a manager of a physical gold fund with access to the largest refineries in Switzerland we were able to liquidate metal positions in a trusted network with very little friction. The same thing is not true https://t.co/KMqg6fQWvo Buying gold and silver is"
X Link 2026-01-25T09:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SteveDavies365 @aljhlester Hmm. I think we can take the 20th c as showing that planned economies - whether fascist or communist - don't work as well as free market. Big example big lesson of course so your point might hold at the detail level"
X Link 2026-01-25T09:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 @IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews It was indeed all about CFC. Brooks' (P Eye's) estimate always assumed that CFC applied in Lux. As it turned out it didn't. Therefore there never was the 6b liability. The later payment was when V moved money back into UK to pay a divvie. All agreed all along that was taxable"
X Link 2026-01-25T09:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pandopando72263 @IsabelPat1886 @rbrooks45 @PrivateEyeNews As I recall it last judgement in V case was "Well theoretically maybe" and abt same time Cadbury told HMRC "No". So given the precedent that was that. But at this distance note "recall""
X Link 2026-01-25T09:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@patrickcrozier It's deffo a speculative surge yes. His good delivery bars Dunno - also precious isn't my thing minor is"
X Link 2026-01-25T10:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@MattBrookes3 @real_lord_miles @grok Polly Toynbee used to write in The Guardian about how Labour inner city constituencies were being undercounted by population. Using sewage volumes as her measure. Correction would have benefitted Labour thus explaining Polly. Bit quiet on that in recent years tho' Our Poll is"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Traditionally Tuesday is the slowest day of the restaurant/pub year. Tuesdays are always the slowest day anyway. And this Tues is just after the Christmas credit card bill payments hit. You should read this in a Michael Caine voice not a lot of people know that"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Ah yes the balanced budget multiplier. Certainly true at v low levels of public spending. Not true at very high ones - the spend has to be of higher value than what the untaxed would have been spent upon for it to be true. We are .at already too much for it to be true It would seem that higher public spending does not in fact boost the economy more than the tax rises needed to pay for it. Im confident that the OBR will have learned from its mistakes so it can repeat them exactly. https://t.co/SD0Whp0rha It would seem that higher public spending does not in fact boost the economy more than the"
X Link 2026-01-25T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@PolemicTMM "Got a bit of inertia on the corners you know but you can get it up to the clappers on the straight.""
X Link 2026-01-25T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@w_s_gosset @KarelKannel @Jordan_W_Taylor Ah well I did yes I did know that. Also scandium is named after scandinavia"
X Link 2026-01-26T07:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@mattyglesias There are deals in the UK market where you can sign up for that. Not perhaps wholly and exactly but pretty much - including negative prices at times. Which means there's a natural experiment that can be studied so as to decide upon the merits- or not"
X Link 2026-01-26T08:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@anne_hegerty @larissaphillip NT too. How we know economists are more important than writers or priests. John [---] - beginning was the word word was God.before which was chaos. Ah yes but who created the chaos"
X Link 2026-01-26T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If only people could be bothered to understand their own shitposting. If wages have risen more than overall inflation then everyone is better off. By about oooh 35% in only [--] years That's pretty good for an economic system. Sigh. It is fascinating how efficient capitalism is at reducing the price of non essentials and boosting the price of essentials It is fascinating how efficient capitalism is at reducing the price of non essentials and boosting the price of essentials"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"OK so gas sets UK price 98% of time Greece 90%. Greek 'leccie price is [--] cents UK is [--] pence . The UK price is 50% higher than the Greek price. It's not how often gas sets the price which is driving up UK prices is it Tosser If we want to make life affordable we need to install clean power and get off natural gas 👇 Natural gas sets our energy price 98% of the time. Gas that is 40% more expensive than wind. https://t.co/P7tgxkSvbX If we want to make life affordable we need to install clean power and get off natural gas 👇 Natural gas sets our energy price 98% of the time. Gas that is 40%"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DominicFrisby Take out Why Skim laddie skim always more profitable in the long term. 0.01% (a pip only a pip) of all FX would be a very tidy sum. Just in London [---] million a day. Enough to keep even me in hookers and decent vino"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@novaramedia Economist states that someone borrowing money to invest proves they've run out of money. Everyone else insists that's not an economist that's a loon. The entirety of capitalism is based upon the idea that investment is financed by capitalists right"
X Link 2026-01-26T19:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek It's fun that finally folk are getting the point I've been making about rare earths for [--] years now. Not rare not earths it's the refining that is the problem. Shoulda charged royalties right https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/09/29/you-dont-bring-a-praseodymium-knife-to-a-gunfight/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/09/29/you-dont-bring-a-praseodymium-knife-to-a-gunfight/"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek My piece is 2010"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PippaCrerar Given current inflation rates [---] will be a peppercorn in [--] years time"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Fat_Jacques @PippaCrerar No that's about tax rates (fiscal see). This is pure inflation. Or even fiscal drag is this same effect but upon tax allowances"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dont Increase The Minimum Wage Raise The EITC Instead: Contrary to the general impression I leave on people . http://t.co/UnmmDtMkUa http://onforb.es/1x8mCLz http://onforb.es/1x8mCLz"
X Link 2015-01-10T16:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Odds That The Greek Debt Deal Will Work Are 50/50 At Best: Thats the considered opinion of some over here in . http://t.co/tPP7XY3sNj http://onforb.es/1HUhgt0 http://onforb.es/1HUhgt0"
X Link 2015-07-17T08:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"American Job Growth Good: Wage Growth Not So Much @Forbes http://onforb.es/1OTGOQO http://onforb.es/1OTGOQO"
X Link 2016-01-09T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DorfmanJeffrey Yes but one can also be unemployed but not count ("dissuaded" workers). If rations hv changed then old nairu not right"
X Link 2016-01-09T15:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PoppyNoor You're a full time student Something you might have informed readers about no It does make rather a difference to your tale"
X Link 2018-05-18T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This is why progressive economics is a nonsense. We already know the answer have done for a century. Don't subsidise the capitalists fine the consumers instead - Pigou Taxes. Works efficient equitable why not Well progressive economists don't like things that actually work Among progressive economists a key argument is about how the state should seek to shift investment into green industries. Should it subsidise the private sector as the US Inflation Reduction does Or nationalise it as for example @Cmmonwealth argue /1 https://t.co/XyR0FxeVFV Among progressive economists a key argument is"
X Link 2023-06-17T09:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"London's most ludicrous share RC365 Holdings. Up [--] million on issuing [----] credit cards Phsaw $RCGH https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/04/ridiculous-rc-365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-27-on-credit-card-agreement https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/04/ridiculous-rc-365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-27-on-credit-card-agreement"
X Link 2023-07-04T12:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"London's getting odd HK based financial stocks. RC365 Holding. A 30k valuation for issuing affiliate credit cards For each credit card issued Nonsense $RCGH https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/06/no-no-rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-25-we-refuse-to-believe-this-is-worth-it https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/2023/07/06/no-no-rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-up-25-we-refuse-to-believe-this-is-worth-it"
X Link 2023-07-06T10:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"$RCGH RC365 holding now back down into the 20's. We did warn all along that this was going to happen didn't we https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/325379/rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-down-81%25-from-peak-we https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/325379/rc365-holding-lon-rcgh-down-81%25-from-peak-we"
X Link 2023-09-20T09:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"$AIRE This is impressive up 5000% on introduction to Nasdaq for reAlpha Tech. The next 82% fall is not quite so fun. And all about timeshare sales of AirBnb properties. But with that added sprinkle of AI. No really AI v important that. https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/328891/reaplha-tech-nasdaq-aire-stock-up-5-000%25 https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/328891/reaplha-tech-nasdaq-aire-stock-up-5-000%25"
X Link 2023-10-24T07:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"$DFCH it's the little notes in the Distributed Finance release. It looks RoyaleLife is going to be a great big roiling gorgeous business failure. With possibly added excitements The boss bankrupt in [----] on S Time rich list last year now.snigger https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/332517/distribution-finance-capital-lon-dfch-down-31%25 https://www.dhakatribune.com/financial-markets/332517/distribution-finance-capital-lon-dfch-down-31%25"
X Link 2023-11-29T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@veronica_humble I always find "government" to be a useful answer to these sorts of screw ups"
X Link 2026-01-05T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"UBI gives massive boost to culture and the arts Umm why Ahh that's why. Workshy luvvies don't even have to bother with the Starbucks application process. You're happy to be taxed to pay for that right Great to see Bristol's Green councillors making case for a trial Universal Basic Income - a guaranteed payment that would have huge benefits for groups like care leavers and give a massive boost to culture and the arts. https://t.co/zeuXmDXs5x Great to see Bristol's Green councillors making case for a trial Universal Basic Income - a guaranteed payment that would have huge benefits for groups"
X Link 2026-01-19T17:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@nmrqip No no it's supersekkret. Special speshul use in Llantrisant"
X Link 2026-01-22T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek So when do we start breaking into hospitals for their valuable stores of old X-Rays"
X Link 2026-01-23T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@John_Stepek A quick calc (without thinking about processing costs tsk) has the Royal Mint paying $20k a tonne for old X-Rays. So there's a plot line for the next revival of Del-Boy"
X Link 2026-01-23T19:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The real reason that French wealth tax failed. It's Hayek not Laffer. Lack of knowledge of the initial state not changed behaviour. https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/failure-by-hayek-is-no-better-than-failure-by-laffer https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/failure-by-hayek-is-no-better-than-failure-by-laffer"
X Link 2026-01-25T09:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Suitpossum I think that starts with an error. The FT is not set up to serve capitalists. Rather the haute bourgeoisie who serve capitalists. From that all other errors flow"
X Link 2026-01-26T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@PerfumedDandy @izakaminska @mbauwens True true - I often think that a goodly part of the rage against neoliberalism is that the money in finance means that the profs pols those Great and Good have to live a little further down Hampstead Hill than they think they ought to"
X Link 2026-01-27T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So How Do We Execute My Evil Plot by @worstall Such an evil plan. All the members of Patriotic Millionaires must release their tax returns. Or even we release them for them. https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/so-how-do-we-execute-my-evil-plotutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/so-how-do-we-execute-my-evil-plotutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"
X Link 2026-01-27T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No that's not right. It's the political system of the European Union that is to be damned to perdition to roast in Hellfire for all eternity. The place people cuisines weather all wholly great and wonderful to live among. Love Europe love Europeans I think its super cool that we have a beautiful museum continent whose main export is holidays I just dont want to be part of it. Love Europe love Europeans I think its super cool that we have a beautiful museum continent whose main export is holidays I just dont want to be part of it"
X Link 2026-01-27T09:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Sam_Dumitriu Re 1). Not quite. Investment is a cost of being in business. Profits are revenues minus costs. So obviously costs of investment are deducted from revenues before profits calculated"
X Link 2026-01-27T16:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DiscountedTr The actual truth is a little more prosaic. Sure he's a good investor. But because his funding comes from investing the insurance float his cost of funds is a couple of points below Treasuries. Easier to do well at that point even if still not wholly easy"
X Link 2026-01-27T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mualphaxi For all the little this means - yes I approve. Far better to give $100 million to actual people than to some or other movement or collection of the usual NGOs like Soros or Bloomberg does"
X Link 2026-01-27T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@SamBuntz Hmm dunno. People have been making kebabs since forever. But the doner kebab seems to have been invented in 1970s Berlin. Innovation's an odd thing. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/20/doner-kebabs-celebration-50-years-berlin-germany https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/20/doner-kebabs-celebration-50-years-berlin-germany"
X Link 2026-01-28T09:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@John_Stepek Brown selling then Well you know. But Brown announcing he was going to sell before he did Monstrous idiocy"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@kenanmalik Didn't The Who drag a dummer up from the audience when Keith Moon fell over"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@darengb @Afinetheorem This is the correct answer. If you don't have to invest in the next generation of a product then you can cut costs massively. Think how much profit Shell would be making if it wasn't investing at all This is also true of s/ware. The strategy runs out of time sure but works now"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The joy of this is - well according to legend that is - that steak frites was introduced to Paris by Wellington's troops in 1815/18. Yes really this is in fact a British invention. Our cuisine is so rich so good that we just give away signature dishes to Frenchies d'ye see Steak frites really might be the goated meal Combines two of the most enjoyable foods there are complemented perfectly in both taste and nutrition cheese would send it to the moon (just eat cheeseburger theory). Michael Jordan famously ate steak and baked potato before every https://t.co/xfWVHPMt8k Steak frites really might"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@MrRBourne Ah war stories now is it Lemme tell you youngster about that commute home from 10th and F to Mount Vernon the day that 'plane came down on the 14th St bridge in a snowstorm. Now if I can just get my teeth in properly I'll tell you"
X Link 2026-01-29T08:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mplsgordon2 I did once write an article for publication (you know real newspaper stuff they pay me) where I was more forceful about Charlie and the libel lawyer insisted upon that being edited out. Sigh"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Of Course We Pay Water Bills. Who Else In Buggery Is There by @worstall Another attempt to get the basics into the heads of those who write The Guardian. Isometric exercise obvs. https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-we-pay-water-bills-whoutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/timworstall/p/of-course-we-pay-water-bills-whoutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@teortaxesTex Ain't that the truth. I've a new rare earths separation process (well old idea and concentrate to individual REs is what is meant) and the only unknown is what $ does it scale at Which is the expensive thing to find out of course"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@anne_hegerty @BradfemlyWalsh Parts of the family have that black black hair that looks Andean. As g granny was born in Callao and her mother was deffo a bit of a goer (deffo) then maybe some romancing with a mestizo Or could be just the Celt coming through which is boring. Also urgh Celts in my family"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@RianCFFWhitton Natural gas is difficult to export (LNG ain't free to make after all). Conversions then export of the product (ethane say other plastics possibly) can make sense. And with people trying to prevent LNG trains great sense. As with the crude export ban but you could ship refined"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Glorious. So laddies defraud JP Morgan. But employment contract means JPM must pay the defence lawyers. Defence lawyers have vast bank on the ropes JPM must pay their fees. $114 million later they're asking for another $20 million. Heh snigger. truly the most fun courtroom article Ive written: https://t.co/3EsJuPuI00 https://t.co/zp7xPinwhn truly the most fun courtroom article Ive written: https://t.co/3EsJuPuI00 https://t.co/zp7xPinwhn"
X Link 2026-01-30T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mattyglesias Linguistic difference more than anything. What USians call "hiking" we culturally and linguistically correct peeps would probably call "hill walking". Even "fell walking". But then there's no telling rebellious colonials where they've gone wrong now is there"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mcdonnelljp Well yes but think of a country wherethe actions of the one individual criminal (rather than a criminal in government) actually changes the national murder rate so significantly. TBF that's a place with not all that much murder around right"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NoahRettberg Well yeah. But when that local employer goes bust it also wipes out the locality. And yes it does happen. Seen it happen"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AndrewOrlowski Four times more energy than you put in Eh Possibly - possibly - move 4x heat than the energy it takes to move it but that's different"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@lippyent Not that they bought it from Sears but family friends bought a house in containers - inside the first door shovels and gravel at the back of the last bathtaps - and erected it on a hill at Big Sur in 1970s Lovely place with a [--] ft A frame window in the lounge"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SteveDavies365 @sethharpesq I run with Hal Varian here. GDP doesn't deal well with free. As TFP uses market prices as the measure of output value that's where - I think - the snafu is in the measurement. Another description of same thing it's all turning up as consumer surplus"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@WatsonLadd @AndrewOrlowski It's not a heater it's a pump of heat"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@watzi2w @MichaelAArouet It's also true the South was Byzantine for many more centuries than the North (which had a heavy German influence the Lombards) then Norman then Spanish (usually ruled by the idiot son of the Sp King). The S of Italy is really more comparable to Greece or Andalucia than N Italy"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@S_Surprenant Yeah but rule by technocrats as opposed to the first few hundred in the Boston phone book"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ah so I get the fame and the groupies if I'm wrong But then given I've been following all these years the wrong strategy then where are they Beat that Zeno @worstall Being right makes you few friends. Being right a decade too early makes you no friends at all. Though you do have a standing lunch/dinner invitation if you are ever in these northern climes @worstall Being right makes you few friends. Being right a decade too early makes you no friends at all. Though you do have a standing lunch/dinner invitation if you are ever in these northern climes"
X Link 2026-02-01T07:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Well Done To Poppy Noor A Masterly Dig At The Guardian In The Guardian @PoppyNoor http://www.continentaltelegraph.com/newspaper-watch/well-done-to-poppy-noor-a-masterly-dig-at-the-guardian-in-the-guardian/ http://www.continentaltelegraph.com/newspaper-watch/well-done-to-poppy-noor-a-masterly-dig-at-the-guardian-in-the-guardian/"
X Link 2018-05-18T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@PoppyNoor "I'm a millennial I've not any money for rent" is pretty prominent there. "I'm a full time student" is not. Hmm"
X Link 2018-05-18T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Astonishing how much of that is used fishing gear isn't it Not in fact plastic straws Another crate catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. https://t.co/iM7WvXnCiv Another crate catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. https://t.co/iM7WvXnCiv"
X Link 2024-07-16T13:11Z [----] followers, 1.5M engagements
"Another crate catch from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
X Link 2024-07-15T14:02Z 347.5K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Standard idiocy. Adam Smith explained it [---] years ago. If Jeff's spent $800 million on a yacht then the other people now have the $800 million and Jeff has the yacht. So the money has already gone to the other people who have the $800 million. Remember the universal truth https://t.co/hYfqbStwsk Remember the universal truth https://t.co/hYfqbStwsk"
X Link 2025-07-01T19:51Z [----] followers, 697.6K engagements
"Remember the universal truth"
X Link 2025-07-01T14:12Z 149.2K followers, 2.1M engagements
"16 million disabled That's like [--] 22% of the entire population. I'd suggest gently at first that the problem is too wide a definition of disabled. 16M disabled people in the UK but only 3.7M get PIP thats under [--] in [--]. Now Labour's planning to slash benefits for 1M people. This isnt about job creation; its a calculated attack on our most vulnerable. Enough is enough. https://t.co/SIr4RUZKeH 16M disabled people in the UK but only 3.7M get PIP thats under [--] in [--]. Now Labour's planning to slash benefits for 1M people. This isnt about job creation; its a calculated attack on our most vulnerable."
X Link 2025-03-15T13:47Z [----] followers, 169.8K engagements
"16M disabled people in the UK but only 3.7M get PIP thats under [--] in [--]. Now Labour's planning to slash benefits for 1M people. This isnt about job creation; its a calculated attack on our most vulnerable. Enough is enough. https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/disability-benefits-pip-labour-cuts-b2715544.html https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/disability-benefits-pip-labour-cuts-b2715544.html"
X Link 2025-03-15T09:35Z [----] followers, 214.3K engagements
"We are not a serious nation. Not if we're getting our Middle East policy from a chef. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "It's concerning that we're sending jets out to the middle east when all the talk should be of de-escalation" "If Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government really wanted to show they were serious about de-escalating they should stop https://t.co/WzOIzpuBz8 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "It's concerning that we're sending jets out to the middle east when all the talk should be of de-escalation" "If Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government really wanted to"
X Link 2025-06-15T19:44Z [----] followers, 59.2K engagements
"Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "It's concerning that we're sending jets out to the middle east when all the talk should be of de-escalation" "If Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour government really wanted to show they were serious about de-escalating they should stop selling arms to Israel""
X Link 2025-06-15T14:04Z 120.5K followers, 1.5M engagements
"@almostneonuk I recall a survey from a few years back. More than 50% of the plastic in the oceans is indeed fishing waste and scrap"
X Link 2024-07-16T17:25Z [----] followers, 46.7K engagements
"This is the level of economic understanding that a First in PPE at Oxford gets you folks. Much of our economic and political establishment did PPE at Oxford. Aren't we the lucky ones My little brother asked me why everything suddenly seems so fucked - and this is about as simple an answer as I could give. https://t.co/MZ4SVU3ZDT My little brother asked me why everything suddenly seems so fucked - and this is about as simple an answer as I could give. https://t.co/MZ4SVU3ZDT"
X Link 2024-08-02T14:03Z [----] followers, 314.5K engagements
"Because you abject cretin it's more expensive to make. Plant-based milk is better for our health better for the planet and no animals get hurt in the making of it. So why are we still payingmorefor it Gails Bakery Its [----] time to stop ripping off people making sustainable choices. https://t.co/AXORVuOD6v https://t.co/MdSbb22YFp Plant-based milk is better for our health better for the planet and no animals get hurt in the making of it. So why are we still payingmorefor it Gails Bakery Its [----] time to stop ripping off people making sustainable choices. https://t.co/AXORVuOD6v"
X Link 2025-04-04T20:08Z [----] followers, 72.4K engagements
"Plant-based milk is better for our health better for the planet and no animals get hurt in the making of it. So why are we still payingmorefor it Gails Bakery Its [----] time to stop ripping off people making sustainable choices. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/peta-urge-gails-drop-extra-charge-plant-milk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/peta-urge-gails-drop-extra-charge-plant-milk"
X Link 2025-04-04T17:00Z 81.6K followers, 160.9K engagements
"Lammy's slavery reparations. ICJ judge (same court as Chagos) says [--] trillion. More than UK household wealth. All pensions all housing all shares bonds cash and the furniture too. For being made better off than in West Africa. I have an Anglo Saxon phrase for you here"
X Link 2025-02-08T08:09Z [----] followers, 68K engagements
"Apparently the judge doesn't like Phoebe very much. Poor poor Phoebe"
X Link 2024-10-02T07:50Z [----] followers, 90.6K engagements
"Well misstated. The Laffer Curve says "sometimes" the best way to gain more revenue is to raise tax rates. Also sometimes the best way to gain more revenue is to lower tax rates. "Sometimes" is the vital word in the contention. The 'Laffer Curve' is a fancy way of saying that the best way to help the poor is to cut taxes for the rich. That proposition has proven to be flat-out wrong every time a rightwing government has tried it. The 'Laffer Curve' is a fancy way of saying that the best way to help the poor is to cut taxes for the rich. That proposition has proven to be flat-out wrong every"
X Link 2025-07-26T11:43Z [----] followers, 70.4K engagements
"The 'Laffer Curve' is a fancy way of saying that the best way to help the poor is to cut taxes for the rich. That proposition has proven to be flat-out wrong every time a rightwing government has tried it"
X Link 2025-07-26T10:13Z 114.8K followers, 145.3K engagements
"No he's not right. Switzerland has no capital gains tax and inheritance T starts at 0.1% 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 Victoria Derbyshire says Switzerland's wealth tax raises [---] billion. Switzerland has GDP of c. [---] billion. The UK has GDP of c. [---] trillion. @ZackPolanski is right to say a UK wealth tax could raise much more than in Switzerland. #bbclaurak Victoria Derbyshire says Switzerland's wealth tax raises [---] billion."
X Link 2025-10-20T08:43Z [----] followers, 89.3K engagements
"Victoria Derbyshire says Switzerland's wealth tax raises [---] billion. Switzerland has GDP of c. [---] billion. The UK has GDP of c. [---] trillion. @ZackPolanski is right to say a UK wealth tax could raise much more than in Switzerland. #bbclaurak"
X Link 2025-10-19T09:00Z 19.6K followers, 171.4K engagements
"Fascinating. So Germany uses paid for insurance competitive markets. UK tax and NHS. Germany spends a little more than UK. But gains 3x the beds and 2x the doctors So err it's the tax and NHS structure that is inefficient then The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed Germany has [--] hospital beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people France has [---] beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people UK has [---] Beds and [---] Doctors per [----] people Population Economies and demographics are comparable The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed Germany has [--] hospital beds and [----] Doctors per"
X Link 2023-12-24T16:15Z [----] followers, 75K engagements
"The NHS is deliberately underfunded and understaffed Germany has [--] hospital beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people France has [---] beds and [----] Doctors per [----] people UK has [---] Beds and [---] Doctors per [----] people Population Economies and demographics are comparable UK healthcare has a staffing crisis. Gvt instead of investing in training and attracting home grown healthcare staff through policies to ensure good wages and terms and conditions allows their colonialist theft from the world's poorest countries to fill the gaps . 1/4. https://t.co/tV8k1rLMoH UK healthcare has a staffing crisis."
X Link 2023-12-24T10:27Z [----] followers, 131.3K engagements
"How stupid is Starmer "The school doesnt have to pass this on to the parents in fees." - VAT on private schools. Does he think there's a 20% profit margin that can take the strain Or wages drop by 20% Or what Where's that 20% to come from if not parents He's that stupid"
X Link 2023-09-28T12:53Z [----] followers, 38.6K engagements
"Your regular reminder. Attlee/Bevan didn't "build" the NHS. They stole every piece of extant healthcare infrastructure. The first NHS built hospital didn't open until [----]. Greater government spending on healthcare will always cost us less overall. If we could build the NHS in the wake of WWII we can fund staff pay in-housing and preventative healthcare in [----] Greater government spending on healthcare will always cost us less overall. If we could build the NHS in the wake of WWII we can fund staff pay in-housing and preventative healthcare in 2025"
X Link 2025-07-14T09:03Z [----] followers, 45.3K engagements
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