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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 8)

20th October 2026 Going Postal 0

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…]

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Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 7)

13th October 2026 Going Postal 0

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…]

Democracy

Burnham’s National Care Scam

10th October 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

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…]

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Hari Seldon’s Maths Machine in Northamptonshire: A 100-Variable Model for Predicting the future…

8th October 2026 Going Postal 0

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…]

America

Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 6)

6th October 2026 Going Postal 0

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…]

Economics

Feelz and Squealz

5th October 2026 well_chuffed 0

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…]

America

We Have Met the Enemy…

30th September 2026 Patrick Barron 0

The above is the first half of a famous cartoon quote from the early 1950’s which was reborn, so to speak, on Earth Day 1970. At the end of this short article I will give [more…]

America

Questionable Ethics, Philosophical Guidelines, and the Art of Profiting from Instability (Part 5)

29th September 2026 Going Postal 0

How did George Soros’s saga of triumph unfold from those nascent days in America? As a young émigré, he had charted a modest course: amass $500,000 in five years, return to England, and immerse himself [more…]

America

Confidence Is Essential for a Fiat Currency

23rd September 2026 Patrick Barron 0

Since fiat currencies, per se, are not redeemable for anything other than themselves, their very existence depends upon confidence. The issuing authority must not inflate the currency’s size to the point that it begins to [more…]

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