Month: August 2015

The Reward Of The Boss

August 17, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The news that a clutch of overpaid executives earn over 180 times the average pay of everybody else comes as no surprise but it still deeply shocking. One of the reasons our economy is so out of balance and our society is so unequal is that many rules and principles are being bent or broken. […]

Gordon Brown: Right and Wrong

August 17, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Gordon Brown is quite right to warn that Labour cannot win without a credible economic policy. Where he is wrong is to imply that the remnants of New Labour (and the candidates who lean towards the centre) has one. The reason Jeremy Corbyn has become a phenomenon is because voters have for years been unable to […]

DQE: Now In The News

August 15, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

An idea to stimulate economic growth without further government borrowing. Written in plain English and very easy to follow, this is the only really fresh approach out there to the intractable problems of the UK economy, and it is just beginning to be noticed in important places. Buy! Download only .99p Paperback £2.99 Kindle or Paperback  UK […]

China And Its Currency

August 14, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

China has recently been devaluing its currency to boost its exports. Some think it will go on doing so bit by bit until it settles ten per cent lower than its peak. The fact that it is happening at all causes word wide consternation, because since globalisation it is the currency markets, not governments, which […]

Labour And The Left: Some Warnings

August 12, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It is clear that the centre of western politics generally and those in the UK in particular has shifted left after thirty years on the right. There is a lot of angst about big business, bankers, globalisation, poverty,vulgar riches, wars, social inequality et al. In Greece and Spain new left wing movements have been the response […]