
209 - If global warming is the question, free public transport is the answer
The David McWilliams Podcast
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Why You Shouldn't Use the Bond Market?
Interest rates are as low now as they have been in 500 years, right? Right? A hundred years. So we know that making transport free will totally encourage a huge amount of people who never took before gusits free. We also know that using the bond market, it would cost us six point six million uros a year to provide public transport for the entire country by borrowing for a 100 years. But anact, i think a really interesting issue, john, and we rarely talk about it, is the social upside of having people from different backgrounds and different income levels getting public transport themselves. I've a swedish friend of mine who said to me ages ago about stockholm
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