WigstonWanderer

Whatdyaknow!

The subs say it all 😢

On the positive side, at least we still have 11 players on the pitch no matter how poor

Do they do AI managers these days?

Jesus! Marti has to go!

So sad that we’ve fallen to this level

Wasn’t this the side we were feeling sorry for at the start of the season? Perhaps we’ll have more success in .League 1.

Fck off!!!

God we’re fcking useless!

Well that could’ve gone better! Did, however manage to protect the 3 - 0 defeat for the second half

Ugly second half but we hung on

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Here we go. Gonna be a long second half.

Well I can die content that I was actually watching when Patson Daka scored!! Well done son.

Mav’s back!

Just checking in for solidarity

This is a question that rarely seems to be discussed except to mumble a bit about UBI.

Thanks for that. It’s pretty much how I understood it and I’ve been watching RM’s videos and some others. The bit I don’t get is how using interest rates to control inflation can be replaced by using taxation. RM seems to imply that using interest rates Is largely illusory, but at least it’s relatively easy to effect and is accepted by the public. Taxation is much more controversial and less easy to fine tune on a regular basis. Personally I’m all in favour of separating the super wealthy from their money, or as much as is required to avoid oligarchy, but actually doing so seems impossible.

The problem is that the consensus in western economies on the need to address climate change appears to be weakening as the far right advances and disinformation abounds. In the last week here in Australia the opposition finally abandoned their commitment to net zero. Having said that, they only gave that commitment towards the end of their last period in government in order to bolster their electoral hopes in inner city seats, so it was always luke warm. On the other hand most experts seem to agree that in many countries renewables are by far the cheapest and fastest option to replace aging fossil generation infrastructure and add capacity, so there is good reason to suppose that the market will continue the transition regardless. In addition, China seems to be going gang busters with all forms of non-fossil fuels, and is developing the technology at an amazing rate. Even India and Pakistan seem to be joining in for entirely pragmatic reasons. African nations are likely to leapfrog fossil fuels and go straight to solar as their economies develop. Perhaps in the “west” we need to talk less about climate change (which seems to irrationally annoy many people) and concentrate on the clear economic advantages of renewables. Here in Australia the whole electricity generation system built mostly in the seventies and eighties is aging and needs to be replaced and upgraded regardless of action on climate change. Costs are inevitable whatever technology is employed. At the moment many people believe that these costs are due to action on climate change but in fact the reverse is true as renewables are the cheapest option. I would suggest that an easy win for direct action on climate change would be to take methane leakage more seriously. It is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and has a much shorter life in the atmosphere. Disclaimer: I don’t claim to have any expertise in this subject but I do follow it closely so these are just my own musings.

There’s been a great deal of discussion here about the UK economy, and the view that government debt is like the nation’s credit card is mostly taken for granted. This has lead in the past to austerity and currently constrains spending as UK infrastructure decays, a downward spiral. There are a minority of economists who offer an entirely different perspective in the form of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). I don’t claim to understand it, but it seems to offer far more flexibility in the spend/debt/growth equation for economies with their own fiat currency, subject to the constraint of inflation not getting out of hand. Is there anyone here that has sufficient expertise in this branch of economics that could comment?

Thanks Para👍

You have wrongly attributed the post you have quoted to me. It was posted by @Fear Of The Fox not me! I just made a silly joke about his post. Please remove the attribution as I don’t want to be associated with the ravings in his post.

Donald?

Fair play, good recovery. BDCR best game so far.

Fck me we scored!