Leo Varadkar: “Ricordo di aver avuto una conversazione con un ex membro del governo, che rimarrà anonimo, e di aver cercato di spiegare i prezzi delle case e il fatto che se i prezzi delle case fossero scesi del 50% e poi si fossero ripresi del 100%, in realtà sarebbero tornati al livello dov’erano all’inizio.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/12/09/leo-varadkar-says-many-in-politics-do-not-understand-numbers-or-percentages/
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Has to be Paschal O Donoghue
The words “fell” and “recover” point to the fact that the underlying philosophy is that high house prices are a good thing
>He said while some like Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers – the Ministers for Public Expenditure and the Minister for Finance – understand numbers, “quite a lot don’t”.
>He said generally speaking those who did well in professions such as politics and journalism did so because they were good at language and English and not at numbers and maths.
This makes sense
>“We have done a terrible thing in policy terms – a lot done with advice from medics and specialists – by reducing hospital beds by far too much, and making the emergency department the only way through which most patients can get into the hospital. That is a fundamental thing that has not been resolved yet.”
This is an interesting paragraph and a little window into the dice rolling that is government.
One man’s inability for maths is another man’s income…