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Only a throwaway reference to 'chasing the dragon' would have been marginally more patronising.

Very true.

Excellent stuff (as long as he stays)

Christ, you're a quick reader.

Good article by Paul Krugman in the guardian on the cult of austerity. http://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/apr/29/the-austerity-delusion

No the tripartite arrangements, in themselves, weren't deregulation. They were a form of rationalisation -freeing the BoE to monitor the stability of the system as a whole while empowering the FSA, an independent regulator, to deal with the nitty gritty and the individual conduct of banks and financial actors. In isolation, such a division of labour made and makes complete and utter sense. HTH

Agree, seeing what Bolasie and the pace of palace did to them, Mané and co. must be licking their lips.

Quite possibly, though the older 'youth' players, are the more likely you'll know whether they are going to make it -and if they are- the more you'll want to keep them around the first-team for all the reasons Reed gave. Of course, 20 years-old may still be pretty young for some positions like CB. To be clear, Reed didn't completely rule out loans but did say they weren't the club's default position, one that was sufficiently strong that it set us apart from most other clubs.

It's precisely because he's a 'nutjob' that they are reaching out to him. Which other 'nutjobs' could they have gone for.

Like the shot of bananas with audio of Pearson and then Rodgers delivering a philosophy lecture in the background.

Am sure they'll live. Looking forward to Cameron meeting Jack Whitehall.

Wasn't it Les Reed (on the Footballers Football Show iirc) who said that the Southampton was different from other clubs in that as a matter of general principle, it was against loaning out young players? That it didn't buy the theory that competitive football at other clubs toughened players up? Rather the best learning environment was at home, training alongside first teamers, not least because we would have a greater stake in players development?

Where's redslo when you need him...

Behave. You're sounding worse than MLG. Its quality over quantity. A few mins here and there is proverbial box-ticking. Both Chambers and Gallagher got proper run-outs last season (say compared with Targett and Reed). Only JWP has starred in any kind of role this season (and even then, he possibly featured more last season). Rather than rolling the dice with a youngster, we've opted for square pegs in round holes or loans that have largely disappointed. Which is fair enough if they are better; but say as much rather than trying to have your cake and eat it.

Christ he talks some s**t. I haven't seen much evidence of integrating academy into the squad with an actual view to them stepping up rather than warming the bench. Among all the highlights and successes this season, promoting the Academy is definitely not one of them. Which is fair enough if they are not good enough; but don't preach otherwise.

The FSA inherited a fragmentary mess and was seen as an improvement on the nine legacy bodies that preceded it. Ironically, its establishment was delayed because of fears that it would be overbearing. However, over time, its principles-based regulation was celebrated by the great and good for restoring the City's competitiveness and copied by others around the world. The BoE remained responsible for overseeing the stability of the financial system as a whole. If there was a flaw, it was Treasury's inability to get its partners to tow the same policy line - conceivably the situation would have been worse under the status quo ante. What failed, more importantly, was not an institution or its configuration; but an entire system of thought, one that had blinded regulators and politicians, whatever the ideological stripe.

Planning to visit San Francisco/Santa Clara in mid-October - won't have a car, so will be almost entirely dependent on trains and public transport. Any way of getting out to the nicer parts of the coast or more secluded parts of the state on it - if so any recommendations where to go?

One problem with that comparison is that it doesnt adjust for inflation. Would Lambo have cost £1m if we had bought him in 2013 as opposed to 2009? The retort is that there hasn't been the same inflation in L1 as the PL and the Championship. Even so, we bought players in the Championship -Sharp and Fox being the obvious ones- who would have cost significantly more today (I.e. in Bournemouth terms).

What does the game engine do differently when it's on that setting?

A lot more has been going on than Thatcher's 'neoliberal' revolution (christ I hate that word). Thatcher simply accelerated trends that were long present in the economy and in turn technnology and globalisation have given them additional impetus.

I cannot believe that a sentence so short can have as many holes, inconsistencies and non sequiturs. F**k me, you're concise.

Wishful thinking. Having lived down there in the past, can tell you that young and old call us scummers and have a 'thing' for us. If they are rather sedate, it's not because of their grasp of history or life's ironies, it's because they are a noddier version of Norwich.

arry already laying claim to it.

The IMF, that most strait laced of institutions, the scourge of lefty, antiglobalisation protestors, the cheerleader of fiscal orthodoxy, the authority that Osborne cites ad nauseum whenever it doles out a crumb of praise on the UK? You still don't get this bond market lark, do you -all while moving the goalposts. QE has benefitted the rich -I've said so explicitly; but the idea that they "get a much higher return on them (government debt) than many other investment vehicles" (your words) is bats**t crazy. Thanks to the demand for safe assets, macro uncertainty and QE, yields on sovereign bonds have fallen to practically nothing - despite recession-induced borrowing. Investors today are buying government bonds on which they will lose money if they hold them to maturity. Thus JP Morgan estimates that nearly $2.42tn of the world’s government bonds trade at negative yields. Worse, should interest rates go up at any point (they can't go any further down viz. ZLB), it would spell carnage for the price of many of those bonds. So no, you couldn't be more wrong -Natalie Bennett costing her green petting zoo on an abacus is less wrong than you. HTH