Ukip and the ‘new relationship’ with the Commonwealth
Estimates suggest there are over 2.1 billion people generating an estimated $9 trillion combined GDP, across all inhabited continents throughout the 53 states that make up the Commonwealth. Though not...
View ArticleThe Economy Simply Explained
In my recent article The Future Economy there were four tables with listings of public service expenditure. For many people the idea of reading through and absorbing or understanding the figures is a...
View ArticleCourant Times – Thursday 2 April
Common Sense:- Con-Home: The true nature of UKIP is becoming clear: GE15:- RT: Clegg set to lose seat, poll indicates: Telegraph: Oil & Gas discovered off Falkland Islands: Mail: SamCam goes...
View ArticleTruth about the economic promises
Since the party manifestoes have been published I have been trying to work the numbers again to predict the effect of the economic policies for Labour the Conservatives and UKIP. I really didn’t take...
View ArticleTruths about Government and money
Some 250 years ago, in 1764, Francois Marie Arouet (1694-1778), a French philosopher and historian better known as Voltaire, stated that: “In general, the art of government consists of taking as much...
View ArticleOne rule for Greece …
While the European Commission insists on economic reform in Greece, it is taking a more tolerant approach to France’s stubborn budget deficit. Two years ago EU finance ministers gave France another...
View Article“Brexit will cost £4,300 per household”
The Treasury has fired its big bazooka. It is publishing a substantial report and economic analysis concluding that Brexit would reduce GDP by 6% by 2030 (on where it would have been), and so cost...
View ArticleCompleting Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union
The five presidents’ report That’s the title of a report put out by the European Commission and written by Jean Claude Juncker in close cooperation with Donald Tusk, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Mario Draghi...
View ArticleEU Debate – Trafford Business Club 20 June 2016
And so it came to pass that John Bickley, Brian Otridge and David Lonsdale (a Tory) sat down at a table in Sale RFC in Manchester on Monday to have an EU Referendum debate against Edwina Currie, ex...
View ArticleThe Canadian Economic Transformation Using State Created Sovereign Money
This is Part 2 of an article published last week :here. From 1938 to 1974 the publicly owned Bank of Canada created interest free money (Sovereign Money) in the public interest to end the Depression...
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