Britains Trillion Pound Horror - Channel 4

[Ruprect]

Translation:

"No one here knows what they're talking about. I do, and to prove it, here are some subjects you might like to look into before you start waxing lyrical and making yourself look like a baseless idiot, but which I can't be bothered to explain to you, because you're a baseless idiot"

FTFY

[Ruprect]

Translation:

"No one here knows what they're talking about. I do, and to prove it, here are some words I found using a search engine."

Translation:

As greenlabel doesn't know what he's talking about then neither can anyone else

[GreenLabel]

Translation:

As greenlabel doesn't know what he's talking about then neither can anyone else

Firstly, my point, which you seem to have missed, is that you're bagging everyone else's knowledge of the subject without demonstrating any of your own. If you've got an opinion, put it out there. If you think you're an expert, let's see you prove it.

Secondly, the terms and concepts you mention have been discussed here at length in myriad other threads. For example, I'd wager almost anyone on this forum (perhaps with the exception of AtW) is familiar with the Laffer curve.

[minestrone]

No idea what the Laffer curve was until I looked on google there, now I am an expert on economics.

[Sysman]

Secondly, the terms and concepts you mention have been discussed here at length in myriad other threads. For example, I'd wager almost anyone on this forum (perhaps with the exception of AtW) is familiar with the Laffer curve.

I thought a Laffer curve was to do with Global Warming...

"Is this a hockey sick which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A hockey stick of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"

(apologies to Bill S.)

[TimberWolf]

Can't climatologists use spare capacity on their monstrous computers to simulate the economy and nail this one on the head once and for all. What's best, for most, low taxes or a big public sector.

[OwlHoot]

No idea what the Laffer curve was until I looked on google there, now I am an expert on economics.

I looked it up, and by God he's right!

There was me thinking it was a measure of Scouse humour.