Jolly Roger

Complexity...works fine when you have surplus energy and capital to throw at the hard problems, in more constrained times you can't even maintain what you already have let alone add additional layers on top.

How is a wage/price spiral going to run this time round given the lack of unionisation compared to the 70s?

They're leaving California because of a mass shooting on the opposite coast? Trumpian politics? Trump isn't in power. They're leaving California for places like Texas, a gun toting state that's been red for over forty years. And I guess now Portugal too. Will miss playing in the desert and Palm Springs, a rich yuppie enclave that's 80 percent white, unlike California as a whole. Lol but no doubt it's the republicans that caused them to leave places like LA and San Fran, not the gangs and homeless people shooting up and defecating in the street. Funny how these people want to abandon a democratic state that's got more diverse with each passing year?

If I buy stocks or crypto I accept they can go to zero. The value of your property can go up or down, and you may end up owing more on your loan than the property is worth. Sign on the dotted line you mothers.

My second home is my pension

I've always avoided chlorphenamine due to the Alzheimer's link over long term, also seems harder to come by in most shops. One a day tablets are either Loratidine or Cetirizine, though they prob have long term risks too.

No matter how many books or articles I read I still don't understand inflation in a way that is satisfying. Surely the demand for higher wages in an inflationary environment is just feeding the fire and pushing inflation up further? Obviously a lot of current price rises are cost-push due to shortages in energy, shipping containers etc. And I understand why workers act in a self interested fashion when it comes to asking for above inflationary wage rises, just seems like we are happy with the beast eating two percent of the population a year but if it eats eight percent then something must be done.

Perhaps if the elites didn't frustrate the democratic will of the country, Brexit would have gone differently and Bojo may not have to be elected. I'd say Remainers are as responsible for him being in office if not more so.

In many cases the 2008 recessionary period didn't really feel any different to what came before - people still went to work, bought gadgets and cars and went on foreign holidays. What kind of crash would it take for the majority to notice a real decline in living standards, a proper depression?

What on earth do people have to feel confident about?

Would imagine in the 70s more full fat type foods, butter and lard, suet in puddings, not everything made with vegetable oil, low fat processed frankenfoods etc. More protein and fewer carbs potentially, so even with gigantic Mars bars before shrinkflation probably fewer snacks as a whole, food more expensive so less grazing from cupboards full of treats, longer times between eating and effect on metabolism, plus the walking to school, no driving little prince two miles to the school gate in a 4x4 due to helicopter parenting. Youth entertainment more outside the house, footie and bike rides, playing manhunt around the block. Office may have had a biscuit tin, but no fully stocked vending machines, charity tuckshop filled with flapjacks, no Costa across the road selling you a daily 300 calorie muffin as a "great", guess not everything would be rosy but not entirely grim either

Have any of those "mass graves" been confirmed as such? Looks like a moral panic to me: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-mystery-of-canada-s-indigenous-mass-graves

Regarding the council tax rebate, what percentage of renters pay it themselves versus the landlord paying it, I wonder? In the latter case, I'm sure the rebate will be passed on to the tenant!

Why are the government scared of Omicron again?

Not sure how trustworthy that "research" is but a 36% YoY drop is a fair bit.