Brendon Boshell
@brendonboshell
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Founder at Recoreo - Operator of online brands. Founder at Gym Geek (https://t.co/M0SXJAkSa8) - calorie calculators, free workout routines and exercise guides.
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Joined April 2008
Economic growth: 1.3% Pension spending growth: 4.8% The maths isn’t mathsing.
Wednesday's i: UK pension set to climb by 4.8% as triple lock helps buffer over-65s from inflation #TomorrowsPapersToday
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@Birdyword Even increasing it in line with the max(cumulative(wage growth, inflation, 2.5%)) would have been massively better than cumulative(max(wage growth, inflation, 2.5%)) and I don’t understand how this problem wasn’t foreseen in 2011
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James Sinclair's reaction when he finds out that John Caudwell (net worth £1.5 billion) watches YouTube everyday but refuses to pay for YouTube Premium 🤣
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To lose weight. To get stronger. To eat well. To live happy. To keep going. To keep track.
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To lose weight. To get stronger. To eat well. To live happy. To keep going. To keep track.
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The layabouts of Reddit are fantasizing about doing the bare minimum again.
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Creative destruction is also the most under-appreciated reason for why high minimum wages can improve economic efficiency
The 2025 laureates in economic sciences Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt studied the mechanisms behind sustained growth. In an article from 1992, they constructed a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the
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Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. https://t.co/Xf3EE89ANI
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I went to Diwali On The Square festival today. Really great fun. London really is a great city.
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👀 If the 2nd point is true it confirms what many long suspected: that Jingye (British Steel owner) was always an arm of the Chinese state. Raising the question: why on earth did we allow one of our most important bits of industrial infrastructure to be sold in the first place?
Treasury basically perverted the course of justice in order to dodge a compensation claim from a Chinese firm. See it, say it, sordid.
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If you want your startup to be successful you have to do the boring things over and over for years. Many will give up and that's your advantage.
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If whoever is expected to form the next govt (most likely Reform, atm) ends up promising to abolish stamp duty, it could cause the current government a serious problem as people hold off on housing transactions and the entire market grinds to a halt.
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The last few months have been a blur business-wise, but Gym Geek finally hit 2,000 paying subscribers today 🚀 I remember seeing this chart say "1" on my launch day. The first version was scrappy and buggy, it did the absolute bare minimum, but with the adrenaline shot of a few
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Abolishing stamp duty could well benefit efficiency of the economy by promoting labour mobility, and a faster paced housing market… Many reform proposals floating around however envisage replacing it with something paid by the seller or instead a national annual property tax
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Good. Stamp Duty on property and listed shares is a £18bn/ year headwind to the UK economy. Abolish it and it is the closest thing you get (apart from scrapping the Energy Profits Levy) to a fiscal free lunch.
A future @Conservatives government will: CUT your taxes. ABOLISH Stamp Duty. ABOLISH Business Rates for pubs and shops on high streets. And deliver a big, bold offer for YOUNGER PEOPLE. All because of the decisions we have set out to live within our means.
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Stamp duty is the worst tax Britain has. It makes the housing shortage significantly worse by penalising people for downsizing and stopping people from moving around to better jobs. There is literally no better tax cut for growth you can do than getting rid of it.
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Jeff Bezos explains why “wandering” is essential for invention “Wandering is so important because wandering is a kind of humility,” Jeff Bezos begins. “Wandering sounds so inefficient, but the only way to go straight to your destination is if you know where you’re going.” Jeff
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