Matt Carter

Economics, cricket, golf, live music. Day job in marketing. UK-based NZer.

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@jfwduffield You don’t think Stokes and his senior players bear any responsibility for yesterday? Regardless of any mgmt issues, it all felt very player-led to me. Inc bizarre timing of announcement and decision for Ben to open

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@DanielPriestley Surely this isn’t true

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@jfwduffield Difficult to disagree with this, although not sure about Cairns (although not obvious who to replace him with!)

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@cjsnowdon Is this right?

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@LoftusSteve Just a another day in this clown show

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@EdwardJDavey Are you five?

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@DanNeidle Cut stamp duty on residential property in half (with an aim to eliminate all together)

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@PronouncedHare And it’s going to get even worse under Burnham. Unfortunately the only hope of a path back to sanity is a deep financial crisis

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@DanNeidle Out of interest, do you think the 45% rate is the right level on income?

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@andrew_lilico More price controls (on ‘essentials’ as Scotland doing, rent, min wage, salary caps etc). But there will absolutely be more taxes.

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@Birdsbirdbird @s8mb He said we were “in hock to the bond markets”, but unclear what he actually meant by that. Def a concern but it’s one thing to say stupid things like that and another to actually implement them, particularly in a country with fairly robust institutions etc

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@s8mb Agree, it’s worth being concerned about. But I think the probability is very low, given our institutions, constraints etc. I expect we’ll get slight acceleration of stupid, rather than suicidally stupid

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@RichardJMurphy Don't borrow so much then

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@ShippersUnbound All well and good talking about becoming more like Finland. Question is whether they’d be willing to propose the average worker pays 30-40% more tax in order to achieve it. Won’t happen, none of them are willing to honestly discuss trade offs

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@David__Osland Inflation was over 200% when he took office, it has since plummeted. Unemployment is up 1-2 % points (but still lower than the rate 10 years ago), hardly rocketing

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@itsenglishfox @AngelaRayner The replies here really illustrate the complete absence of public understanding of European social insurance healthcare systems. Grim

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@andrew_lilico Could you elaborate on why you think they originally served a valuable purpose?

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@tomhfh @alexmaccaroon Thought the leading article in this week’s @spectator beautiful summed up the situation

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@Top100Rick I can’t see a bust happening. Demand has increased considerably whilst supply hasn’t