Regular visitors to this site will have noticed that activity has been on the wane for a while now. This is has been because I have been kept busy with personal and professional obligations lately which have made it very hard for me to find the time to maintain this blog. Its not that I [...]
For quite some time now people have been worrying about the quantitive easing strategy and its affects on the Bond markets, personally I have been very critical of this strategy as I think it is bound to fail in the long-term. The only question is when as far as I can see and the chatter [...]
A lot of people down my way have been getting excited about apparent green shoots of recovery in the housing market thanks to quite a lot of favourable news items appearing suggesting increased activity at estate agents. Indeed local agents are getting very excited and lots of new properties are showing-up in their windows with [...]
Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. This show aired 3rd April, 2009 on PBS (US).
There seems to be more need for us now to remember our national identity than ever. God bless England, happy St. George’s Day.
There’s been much talk of late about seeing better times ahead, green shoots of recovery or market bottom over the last couple of weeks. Don’t believe a word of it. The bear market rally of the last month or so is running out of steam, liquidity injections are starting to run dry and fundamental problems [...]
“The world needs cheap and clean energy, too many of the people working on this problem are luddites and greens and Marxists and politicians and lawyers and other people who don’t understand the problem. But scientists and engineers and venture capitalists can solve the problem.
Just like it took us thirty years to break the back [...]
These days it seems like a regular event to find Britain in the grip of some highly embarrassing crisis of one sort or another. This week it’s the snow. In spite of the dilapidation of the transport infrastructure I managed to make it into the office yesterday, a combination of blind luck and shear determination [...]
What a grim start to the New Year its been, but nothing particularly unexpected. The Israelis used the gap in US presidential occupancy to launch another one of their many directionless offensives precisely on cue.
The economy has now moved into a new phase of collapse as the banking crisis contaminates the wider economy this [...]
What with all the doom and gloom that pervades our lives at the moment it would be easy to capitulate and descend into a long winter mope and forget about Christmas altogether but I can’t see what that would achieve do you? Probably the best way to fight back against the misery is to lift [...]
Personally I have no preference for either candidate or party but I have found myself concerned by the issues that have dogged this election. That is race of course.
If you had asked me if there was a possibility of a black president ten years ago I would have probably answered that it was only possible [...]
Good riddance to the mediocre fool too.
