The UK needs an emergency Budget full of shocks
There is no attitude more shameful and debilitating than defeatism, as Britain learnt at great cost in the 1970s, when managing decline became our crumbling establishment’s default strategy. George...
View ArticleHow the End of Empire comes, not with a bang, but with a whimper
by Tim Price for SovereignMan: When Moody’s downgraded the UK’s sovereign credit rating last week it was something of an anti-climax. The ratings agencies long ago lost what little credibility they...
View ArticleThe QE Experiment is Failing… Will Stocks Crash?
Graham Summers from GainsPainsCapital writes: We’ve long maintained that Japan is ground zero for the “QE works vs QE doesn’t work” debate. The Fed’s economic models, and 99% of the economic models...
View ArticleEating Our Seed Corn: How Much of our “Growth” Is From One-Time Cashouts?
Charles Hugh Smith of http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html writes: We as a nation are consuming our seed corn in great gulps, and there will be precious little left in a decade to pass down to the next...
View ArticleGuess which empire came to an end today?
by Simon Black writing for SovereignMan : In the early 16th century, a priest by the name of Fray Francisco de Ugalde remarked to his king that Spain was “el imperio en el que nunca se pone el sol”....
View ArticleRise of the New Libertarians: Meet Britain’s Next Political Generation
By Shane Croucher Britain’s ‘Generation Y’, the under-30s, have fallen out of love with Westminster politics and the state(Reuters) In the ruins of Westminster party politics, between the crumbling...
View ArticleStock Market Update
Most stock appear set to kick off in 2015 with some decent falls. Its too early to tell if this is the beginning of a broad secular bear market or the beginnings of a healthy correction that will last...
View ArticleEra of Transparency & Accountability Beginning for Politicians
An era of transparency & accountability is beginning for politicians. Very shortly the U.S. Congress will shortly vote to make Economic Impact Assessments (EIAs) a mandatory part of every executive...
View ArticleAt $200 Trillion The World’s Debt Cup Overfloweth
by Bloomberg Business The world economy is still built on debt. That’s the warning today from McKinsey & Co.’s research division which estimates that since 2007, the IOUs of governments, companies,...
View ArticleThe Great Sovereign Debt Crisis Coming Soon
Starting in Europe and reaching public consciousness when Japan implodes before engulfing the USA and remaining Liberal-Democratic nations. The Great Sovereign Debt Crisis of the 21st Century is...
View ArticleJP Morgan to Leave UK if it Quits EU
JP Morgan, one of the leading banks in the world has threatened to quit UK if it decides to leave EU after the proposed referendum on the matter. Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive of JP...
View ArticleThe Structure of Collapse: 2016-2019
Charles Hugh Smith writing on his blog Of Two Minds: The end-state of unsustainable systems is collapse. Though collapse may appear to be sudden and chaotic, we can discern key structures that guide...
View ArticleBrexit Impact 2016
Should the “leave” vote win the coming UK referendum you can expect the impact to have global consequences. It will challenge the survivability of the EU. At the same time it will create massive...
View ArticlePendulum of Government Overreach has Peaked
The pendulum of government overreach has peaked in most liberal democratic countries around the world (for now). The major political events of 2016 have shown increasing resistance to government given...
View ArticlePolitical Risk in 2017-2018
In the UK, the conservatives it appears, will win a reduced majority to govern the UK and Brexit process. It is also clear that a loss or hung parliament for the Conservatives will set the UK back a...
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