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Debt cancellation: the new panacea?

20th June 2023 Going Postal 0

There is clearly a common denominator in the kind of “solutions” that the State comes up with to deal with the problems that it caused (and that’s most problems). Not only are these remedies worse [more…]

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America

The tragedy of a rudderless society

5th June 2023 Emile Woolf 0

The definition of “family values” in most dictionaries includes features such as “upholding the moral and ethical principles of fidelity, honesty, truthfulness; and values that promote the sound functioning of the family, at the same [more…]

America

Sound Money Required for Real Budget Discipline

1st June 2023 Patrick Barron 0

News here in the US has been full of the latest farce known as raising or not raising the debt ceiling. Today (Thursday, May25, 2023) the Wall Street Journal’s headline story reassures us that progress [more…]

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The Curse of Government Intervention

13th February 2023 Emile Woolf 0

It should be patently obvious that putting the country into cold-storage for two years, and lavishing unfunded benefits to all and sundry to protect them from hardship, must carry dire consequences for Britain’s  economy – [more…]

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OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Twelve

27th October 2022 Going Postal 0

Introduction Debt means many things. You can owe money, or it can be to help out in the future in thanks when next required, for a favour now. Either way you are beholden to someone [more…]

Business

Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

21st February 2022 Emile Woolf 0

In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Humpty’s subjective approach to verbal meanings is of [more…]

Business

Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 1

14th February 2022 Emile Woolf 0

Any catalogue of economic legends would of course include the 2008 visit of Queen Elizabeth to the London School of Economics, when the country was experiencing an unprecedented housing market bubble based on the irrational [more…]

Authoritarianism

Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries

27th July 2021 Godfrey Bloom 0

Most problems that blight the lives of ordinary folk are caused by politicians. In a democracy one might suggest this is counter intuitive, but democracy has mutated since its  Athenian concept so drastically it has [more…]

Economics

Monetary Climate Change and its implications for investors, part two

12th July 2021 Going Postal 0

Claudio Grass (CG): Even before the pandemic, there was a clear trend towards the politicization of central banks and monetary policy. Over the last year, however, we saw this accelerate considerably, to the point where [more…]

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