America
IMF at the door
On my list of recommendations in YouTube the other day was an extract from TalkTV. It was a discussion between presenter Peter Cardwell and Liam Halligan. You may remember Liam, he had his own show [more…]
Finance
America
David Hume’s Insight Explains America’s Economic Decline
Since he was a young up-and-coming property magnate in New York City, Donald Trump has been fixated on what he believes to be foreigners’ cheating on international trading terms to the detriment of the US. [more…]
Business
How I Got Into Buying Shares
In 1980, I was 30 years old, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher was Prime Minister, having beaten ‘Sunny Jim’ Callaghan at the previous year’s General Election. It was the first year that I thought deeply about [more…]
Economics
A Practical Way to Protect the Worldwide Trading System
In a previous essay I pointed out that it is very likely that the US will isolate itself from the worldwide trading system due to it past, frankly, unlawful actions to steal the assets of [more…]
Economics
How to Stop the BRICS Nations from Abandoning the Dollar
The US government is aghast that there is a new grouping of nations that seeks to form an alternative to the US trade bloc and trade settlement system that uses the dollar. These nations have [more…]
Authoritarianism
Uprising in Kenya
Broadcasted for the world to see through TikTok live stream before quickly going viral across several other social media platforms, a video shared early Tuesday, 25 June 2024, by a young Kenyan TikTok user showed [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Problem Is Systemic
October 15, 2024 If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse Kenya, only [more…]
21st Century
Kenya’s Third Liberation Movement
Kenya’s Third Liberation Movement It’s no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change. July 16, 2024 If the point of protest is to create a counter-crisis, then the people’s movement in Kenya [more…]
Capitalism
“The Return of Marxism in the West”
Executive Global: (EG) We saw a heavy-handed totalitarian response to the events of 2020, something that you also noted and discussed when you recently sat down with HSH Prince Michael of Liechtenstein. What were the [more…]