Month: September 2015

Quantitative Easing: Free Download

September 30, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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 […]

Corbyn: Let’s Get Real

September 30, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Corbyn has caused an earthquake which has in turn caused chaos to a whole political class of commentator and pundit who have learned their craft in the last thirty five years. They are almost all (but not quite all) out of their depth and off message, because for them Thatcherism is an everlasting verity, New labour is Labour, left […]

Quantitative Easing: An Easy Explanation Free

September 29, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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 […]

Volkswagen: More Than Meets The Eye?

September 25, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The news that VW now admit that their European cars carry the cheating software and that the UK and other countries are going to carry out tests on ALL makes of cars raises key questions. Clearly the initial supposition that the device had just been fitted in a mere half million cars to circumvent the testing […]

Shocking News

September 24, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The shocking news from Mecca, with the death toll now at 700 and still climbing is appalling and goes to show once again just how dangerous a surging crowd can be. We have had such tragedies at football matches but fortunately they are rare. Sadly Mecca has become a black-spot for this kind of disaster in […]

Conference Reading

September 23, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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 […]

EU Leaders Meet

September 23, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

When the EU leaders meet today they will have a lot to do. Things are not going well. Tsipras has been re-elected in Greece by a wider than expected margin (many in the Euro group hoped for his defeat) which ensures a bumpy ride ahead for the Eurogroup finance ministers. Greece, with its ally the IMF, will […]

Nazi Era Thriller

September 22, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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 and constitutional fabric of […]