QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with a fresh approach to financial issues by the new leadership of the Labour party. 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 […]
There is no way an industrial country can allow itself to go out of steel production. The fact that we are presently a debt driven economy obsessed with shopping and house ownership does not alter the fact that we cannot go on that way. We have to restore a very large part of our industrial […]
BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK
The report that a member of the BBC’s Question Time audience was reduced to tears because of the effect of the cut in tax credits is distressing. It is also something of a political embarrassment. This blog has commented often about the ridiculous situation where low wages and excessive rents are subsidised by benefits so as […]
QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with a fresh approach to financial issues by the new leadership of the Labour party. 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 […]
George Osborne had a bit of a field day yesterday with his parliamentary gimmick which has wound Labour up in knots. Corbyn looked subdued as his Shadow Chancellor put a brave face on what had been something of a disaster. Underlying all of it is the fact that the parliamentary party is way out of […]
QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with a fresh approach to financial issues by the new leadership of the Labour party. 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 […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
Let us step back from the argument in the Labour party and the jibes from the Tories about the new Bill before parliament which is designed to enshrine in law the requirement that ‘in normal times’ (?) no government may run a budget deficit. Forget party politics. This Bill or Charter or whatever it is, […]
In the view of this blog and many other commentators who look upon international affairs as an interaction of national interests which overlap, part, and then come together in different forms and ways, the West’s view of the world is muddled, its actions do more harm than good, it has no strategic view of where […]