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“Whatever it takes”, Part Two

24th August 2022 Going Postal 0

The Fascist Boogeyman awakes again The threat of a far-right takeover has been around for at least three decades in Europe and Italy has been one of the best “candidates” for the “beginning of the [more…]

Economics

“Whatever it takes”, Part One

10th August 2022 Going Postal 0

When the collapse of the Italian government was officially announced, on July 21, many political observers both in Europe and across the rest of the West, were aghast. If Mario Draghi, the central banking messiah [more…]

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Inflation outlook – A battle lost before it started

6th June 2022 Going Postal 0

After months of consumer price increases and after countless working households found themselves in dire financial straits struggling to make ends meet, in the late May, President Biden finally revealed his grand plan to fight [more…]

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Yorkshire County Cricket Club Bloodbath

15th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

On the 14th October 2021, fourteen concerned employees wrote a letter to their bosses. Six days earlier, a summary report into conduct at their workplace had been published. The employees felt it showed them in [more…]

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Reality check: The “miracle recovery” narrative

19th April 2021 Going Postal 0

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been constantly bombarded by news reports and “expert” analyses celebrating an incredible global economic recovery. They’re not even presented as projections or expectations anymore, but as a fact, as though [more…]

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The ECB’s “mea culpa”

9th December 2019 Going Postal 0

Economists, conservative investors and market observers have been issuing stern warnings for years regarding the severe impact of the current monetary policy direction. The problems In a recent statement, ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos [more…]

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Every Folly Has Its Consequences

7th October 2019 Emile Woolf 0

The great Spanish master, Francisco Goya, expressed it concisely: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”. Today, wherever you look, insanity masquerades as rational thought. Lunatics flout their blatantly potty views as if they carried the [more…]

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“More of the same” at the ECB increases gold’s appeal

26th August 2019 Going Postal 0

“The intellectual leaders of the peoples have produced and propagated the fallacies which are on the point of destroying liberty and Western civilization.” Ludwig von Mises, Planned Chaos   It took multiple meetings and over 50 hours [more…]

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