Monthly Archives: February 2010

Governments think it’s time to blame the speculators again. You may remember the speculators and share shorters who dared to sell bank shares during the monetary and regulatory collapse of 2008. They were the cause of that crisis according to some official sources. Governments recommended at the time stopping people selling bank shares short, as [...]

As David Cameron said, after 13 years in government and just a couple of months before a General Election, the Prime Minister has been miraculously converted to changing the voting system. All those doubts and disagreements with such changes which he used to harbour and deploy under Mr Blair have been overcome. The AV system [...]

It’s wonderful to hear from the forecasters that after the fabulous BBQ summer and the mild winter we are now hurtling towards the early spring. It’s just a pity that could be on our snow sledge in near freezing temperatures! The forecasters seem to specialise in winding us up these days. However, as readers of [...]

Alister Heath of City AM has produced some more good topical figures to show that lower tax rates bring more jobs and more wealth and income to tax. Apparently those states in the US like Texas and Florida which levy no additional state Income Tax on top of federal taxes have seen 89% more jobs [...]

Today the pound opened lower again on the exchanges against the dollar. That means dearer petrol, dearer commodities, dearer imports from dollar related parts of the world including China. We are poorer as a result. The MPC is like the drunk trying to walk along the pavement. They spend some of their time in the [...]

There are three strong camps in the debate over whether John Terry had to resign as England’s soccer captain. The footballing pragmatists say it should be settled solely on how well he is doing the job. His private life, they say, is no concern of the team or of England. If the Manager backed him [...]

The word on the street is that a new Parliament will purge the old and give the country a new start with its democracy. Parliament can put behind it the mistakes, errors and frustrations of the past five years and suddenly become the Parliament people need and may even want. It will not be that [...]