Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

EU Referendum: Remain and Leave Unconvincing

January 26, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

As both campaigns, which seem splintered and multi headed, begin to open up their stalls, they reveal somewhat unconvincing wares, which can easily be criticised by the other side, whichever it is, but which has nothing more convincing to offer. We can only hope things will improve when Cameron declares his weird negotiations to be a […]

USA: Trumping The Presidency

January 24, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

To most Europeans Donald Trump has for long been a figure of fun. Rich certainly, but still a bit of a clown. It is now beginning to dawn upon them that the only thing standing between him and becoming President of United States is a lady; Hilary Clinton. For if the polls are to be […]

Google Pays Up

January 23, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It is positive news that Google has paid some more tax, although many feel the amount is far less than must truly be due. In fact whatever they had paid before was what was due; the fact that it was barely anything is a reflection upon the tax rules and systems, rather than the company which […]

Hess Mystery: Download or Paperback from .99p

January 22, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

DOWNLOAD OR PAPERBACK    Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour […]

Raging At Russia

January 22, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The world nine years ago looked rather different. The threats facing it were different. Russia was still recovering from the chaos of the collapse of the Soviet Union and grappling with a power structure, which included former communist officials who had managed to acquire control of former state monopolies making them super rich oligarchs, the very […]

Household Debt

January 21, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Britain has one of the highest levels of household debt worldwide. Economists tend to remark, in the midst of the global market uncertainties, that because the UK economy in centred on home consumption, we are insulated to a degree from what goes on in the rest of the world. That is true in itself but […]

Quantitative Easing? How It Works: Download or Paperback

January 21, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with recent market turmoil. Dynamic Quantitative Easing remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports and enable sustained growth of real national wealth shared […]