If I were David Cameron post-bike scoop I’d market myself as a maverick prepared to bend the rules to get the job done. Dr House MD, on a bicycle. Minus the Vicodin. With legs that work. David Cameron with a Vicodin habit would break Broken Britain’s broken back. The Vicodin straw. The kids look up to Cameron - the street youth. Hipsters, fidget godivas, and Vicodin, all being David Cameron’s fault. Prompting apocalyptic headlines in The Daily Mail, Armageddon in The Sun, and wanky, serious discussion, with mostly idiots, in The Broadsheets. Fuck them! What does David Cameron want with them anyway? Dr House MD wouldn’t give a fuck. Oh, and The Mirror are a bunch of twats too. Just to be even handed and all. The newspapers are crap by-and-large because a great deal of the people that read them are idiots.

In other upcoming news from this armchair economist:

March 14th – Iranian parliamentary elections.  Watch oil prices in the next few weeks.  If it hits $140, we’re all fucked economy-wise, at least temporarily.  More possible than most people realise because they don’t know how OPEC works or the proportion of Iranian oil on the world market.

Interesting times as always.

FYI - a recession is often thought of as a negative change in the rate of growth.  The rate of growth is not the same as negative growth.  So when people say “the economy is slowing”…  You get the idea; something slowing is a negative change in the rate of growth.  It’s like negative acceleration when a car slows down. The press is generally too fuckwitted to work that one out.

Thought of the day

Conservatives may have a predilection to fuck budgerigars and discard their spermy cadavers in rubbish dumps.