Arts
Larry’s Diary Week Twenty Six
Monday A good Monday morning to you all. A lovely bright morning in London, but cold. I nipped out into to the garden before breakfast, you know I hate using the litter tray, and my [more…]
Economics
America
Why I Want China to Stop Manipulating Its Economy
In his State of the Union Address–February 4, 2020–President Trump outlined his reasons for punishing nations like China that manipulate their economies in order to achieve some internal policy goal. The president claimed that such [more…]
20th Century
Selective Recollection & Economic Reality
Those still shedding tears over our departure from the EU invariably refer to the success of the EU in healing post-WW2 wounds and keeping peace in Europe for 75 years. By the same token they [more…]
15th Century
Disintermediation
My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more…]
Capitalism
Testing the Socialist hypothesis
Kristian Niemitz, Head of Political Economy at the IEA, wrote a book last year in which he explores the reasons why the idea of socialism persists as a viable economic system. In “Socialism: the Failed [more…]
Conservatives
“The seeds have been sown for unrest in 2020 in Europe”
Interview with Godfrey Bloom The latest election in the UK promised to bring about a long-overdue end to the Brexit story. Getting out the EU has been a long and winding road for Britain and [more…]
Economics
Central Banks: Enemies of Freedom
Central banks are enemies of a free and prosperous society. Let me count the ways. Like the military, central banks are creatures of the state. Suggestions of them being independent are pure fantasy. There is [more…]
America
US Opposition to Russian Natural Gas Is Wrong on Two Fronts
On December 20, 2019 President Trump authorized sanctions against companies and individuals who are participating in building Nord Stream Two, a pipeline under the Baltic Sea that will bring Russian natural gas to Western Europe, [more…]
Economics
Andrew Bailey, a WWI General for a WWII Battle
We must be cautious how we welcome Andrew Bailey, Mark Carney was certainly the worst governor in post war history so CoCo the clown would look good initially. He has to date been what a [more…]