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The tragedy of a rudderless society

5th June 2023 Emile Woolf 2405 Comments

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…]

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Sound Money Required for Real Budget Discipline

1st June 2023 Patrick Barron 2706 Comments

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 1591 Comments

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 7018 Comments

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…]

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Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 2

21st February 2022 Emile Woolf 2096 Comments

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…]

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Economic Idiocy Repeated, Part 1

14th February 2022 Emile Woolf 2194 Comments

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…]

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Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries

27th July 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2294 Comments

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…]

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Monetary Climate Change and its implications for investors, part two

12th July 2021 Going Postal 2525 Comments

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…]

Economics

Monetary Climate Change and its implications for investors, part one

28th June 2021 Going Postal 3950 Comments

I’ve long been an avid and enthusiastic reader of the “In Gold We Trust” report (“IGWT”), as I believe countless other gold investors are, and I’ve always found great value in the insights, the analyses and all [more…]

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