Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 13hNot every change in has to be progressive. We have an extremely progressive income tax system already 110
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 18hWhat do you mean? Mathematicians had solved advanced problems.. in secret? 130
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026bsky.app/profile/thet... Help is on the way.. if it is politically convenient 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Given the very high part-time rate for mid/ late career healthcare professionals who all will be hit by the £100k trap that's clearly relevant and was the point of the conversation Sorry to be direct but I'm not sure what debate you're actually having 100
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There are purely tax based factors that are a material driver in limiting GP working hours Not the only reason, ofc, but a material one (just ask them). The PM can pull the more healthcare lever but it would be bad vibes. Oh well! 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 06/10/202611% of GPs aged 30 to 40 are working full-time, compared to a third of GPs aged over 60 200
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 06/10/202618.7% of GPs in England work the equivalent of a full-time week of 37.5 hours or more 100
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Burnham getting heat for some very normal sounding property development terms in Manchester If I were to tease: successful, scaled, planning application grants are so unusual in the UK that they will always be viewed with suspicion 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don't understand the question here at all? You compare because they have the same primary balance? Peru has a third the debt relative to GDP and has the opposite sign of Brazil's current account That's before you get to the level of discretionary spend within the fiscal framework of each country 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sure, the stylised example is clear My back of envelope calcs get us 51% of retirees being men Looking at the change in composition between each bucket by sex and inferring a dropout rate www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat03... Not the most robust method but I'm not sure if there is a better waybls.govEmployment status of the civilian noninstitutional population by age, sex, and race : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Men are 55% of employed over-65s and 53.5% of employed over-55s, against 50.6% of under-25s. So yes, clearly does some lifting but I think more being done by sectoral composition 130
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Health care and social assistance is c.78% female + added 546k, which c.90% of all net adds. All else combined added 58k 040
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Iirc, the payroll survey doesn't count hiring but gender directly. For each industry, the BLS takes the total employee estimate and multiplies it by the share of women in its sample of firms, smoothed from month to month. So the split by sex is mostly a readout of which industries added jobs 250
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We should probably make it compulsory to save for retirement 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What have I missed? Boosting defence spend commitments to 3% of GDP by 2030, returning to meeting foreign aid commitments of 0.7% of GDP 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So Burnham is hinting at all of - rejoining the EU - transformative fiscal devo - meaningful electoral reform - revolution in adult social care - nationalisation of natural monopolies - more implicitly large scale tax hikes Exciting times 120
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What was in for the OBR forecast? 10y at 5.1%? Now in and around 5.5% 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Presumably referencing private wage growth there? I didn't catch the speech 100
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wage growth dynamics point to non-cyclicals driving growth relative cyclicals but maybe that changes if sentiment holds up 110
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fans of _a little bit of support_ for property demand are quietly pleased 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lower migration, higher wage growth (via productivity) and business investment were all goals of Reeves Chancellorship. Did Starmer let the side down just when her plan was beginning to work? 110
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Burnham setting out a list of grand ambitions for the government (not this one, the next one) would make sense if he were making a pitch for leadership or if he were leader of the opposition 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lord, give me the end of the triple lock and electoral reform, but not yet! 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The triple lock is not gone. All the journalists and commentators can stop congratulating the PM on a decision he's not made 101
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've never understood where some of the London youth unemployment stats cited come from www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.com‘It makes me feel quite dehumanised’: young at London career fair lay bare barriers to jobsUK capital is perceived as work hub – but as youth unemployment soars, many feel exiled from job market 010
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Spectator reporting, apparently in earnest, "Ministers are being lobbied by the chief executive of a major British business to solve the NEETs crisis – by imposing a four-day week on top earners" What if our firm level productivity was too high? 100
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Everyone is more or less familiar with the rates story which is global front page news But this list is very relevant to the UK specifically 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bsky.app/profile/nobl... The likely benefits relative to past HTB programs is well covered here. Not going to be as simple as in the past without some more improvement in rates and/ or cost of building/ regulation/ duties 110
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wow negative second derivative since 2022 is even more brutal 000
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Developers on a tear today following government help to buy announcement 100
Will @will-rich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Personal care cases seem to be safe from inclusion, tricky probate possibly not 010
