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…]
Recently President Trump threatened to invade Mexico, all in its best interest of course, in order to smash the drug cartels that are responsible for funneling so many illegal drugs into the US. There is [more…]
It takes a lot to keep a population anaesthetised. Anaesthesia, as medical Puffins will attest, is a very tricky and demanding mistress. A dash too much potion here, or an insufficient soupçon of elixir there, [more…]
It’s hard to imagine where we would be today in terms of economic progress, industrial production capacity and labour dynamics if Henry Ford never existed. The revolutionary system he pioneered in the early 20th century, [more…]
Some of you may have heard of the American born British financier Sir William Felix Browder KCMG, more usually known as Bill. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management and in a [more…]
I have been diverted from writing further essays in the Economic Perspectives series as I am assembling the existing essays in a book designed to demystify the science of economics. But occasionally the temptation to [more…]
Having worked in the precious metals industry for decades, I have had countless opportunities to have very honest and very enlightening conversations with numerous investors and partners alike. For many years, I’ve been discussing the [more…]
If you’re driving along the Great West Road through the London suburb of Osterley and see a dark cloud moving towards some outsized sheds, it may well be one of those gathering above the Sky [more…]
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…]
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