In the early 1970s, Chile attempted an ambitious experiment in economic planning. The country’s socialist government invited British cybernetician Stafford Beer to help design a computerised system capable of coordinating the entire national economy. The [more…]
The recent reaction in the gold market to the September US inflation data offers a textbook illustration of how short-term speculative noise can obscure and distort longer-term realities. After the CPI print showed a 0.6% [more…]
Two mistaken lessons from the ‘20s and ‘30s haunt us today Prior to 1913 there was no central bank in the US, and yet the US enjoyed tremendous economic betterment in the post Civic War [more…]
George Soros was no mere speculator; he was a master of calculated risk, navigating the labyrinth of markets with a precision that belied his professed indifference to mathematics. His grasp of financial mechanisms surpassed that [more…]
But what if the audacious wager on the British pound had spectacularly misfired? The $10 billion borrowed to fuel the bet would have demanded repayment, a burden falling squarely on Soros’s shoulders. Yet he dismissed [more…]
At the Labour Party conference, Andy Burnham proposed changing the state pension triple lock from 2030, while keeping it unchanged for the rest of the current Parliament. The existing system guarantees annual increases based on [more…]
A bit about me… Hi… i’m Phil.. I live in Northamptonshire, married with two kids, I work in the construction industry, or at least adjacent. I’m a long time lurker (early days of Guido Fawkes [more…]
In 1988, George Soros deftly manoeuvered through the stock holdings of Société Générale, France’s banking titan, executing trades that yielded a modest $2.2 million profit. The transaction, unremarkable at the time, scarcely rippled the financial [more…]
Watching Bodybags making his first speech at Conference as leader I was reminded of a famous quote attributed to George Burns. “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”. [more…]
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