Matt Hancock is currently a contestant on this year’s ‘I’m a Celebrity …… Get Me Out of Here’. To accept such an offer as a sitting MP suggests a brain the size of a pea (a split one) at any time but under current circumstances, it’s difficult to find the words although I shall try.…
Interest rates keep increasing, inflation keeps rising. The monetary policies of the last decade and a half are now being revealed for the experiments they truly were. As baseball legend, Yogi Berra, a man famous for colloquial expressions lacking in absolute logic yet simultaneously carrying more than a grain of truth, didn’t say but might…
Sometimes, it’s difficult to think of topics to write about. I shy away from posting on a pre-determined basis, preferring to comment only when a particular item has grabbed my attention. However, it’s not a problem I have at the moment. I could, pretty much, write something every day; all to the flapping soundtrack of…
The current economic mess, the creation of all central banks over the past decade, is starting to be unwound. Raging inflation has laid bare just how incompetent the guardians of our monetary systems have been. Consequently, after providing virtually free money for years, they are now aggressively raising interest rates in order to control runaway prices.…
I rarely watch BBC News nowadays. This is principally because there’s precious little news on it. I suppose it all depends upon what your definition of news is. Mine is what are the obvious national and international stories today on this planet of 7 billion plus souls? Lord Reith had it right when he noted the BBC’s job…
If there was any doubt regarding how inept, gullible and arrogant the Bank of England (B of E) is, it came with its decision to raise interest rates by 0.5% to 1.75%. It’s the largest rise in 27 years, which sounds dramatic but against CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation of 9.4%, it’s akin to calling…
Bad can be good and good can be bad. Michael Jackson was Bad although, according to Jordy Chandler, Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, not in a good way. Bad can mean good as in ‘that Mustang is seriously badass’ which roughly translates as ‘that particular Ford car looks delightful’. A kind gentleman recently described my…
From an economic perspective, it’s difficult to argue there has been any improvement over recent weeks. On the contrary, global inflation continues to rise, as do interest rates while in the UK, waves of industrial action now appear a formality. Meanwhile, Putin’s forces continue their assault on Eastern Ukraine, meaning little respite for the prices…
In homage to the Halifax’s new policy on name badges carrying personal pronouns, Williams Investment Management decided to implement a similar strategy. I self identify as ‘John’, ‘Yorkshireman’ and ‘Bloke’ (or ‘Geezer’, for any readers in the London area). I’d wanted to add ‘George Clooney lookalike’ and ‘F16 Fighter Pilot’ but unfortunately there wasn’t enough room. I’m joking,…
There’s a wonderful Warren Buffett quote that never loses its resonance. “You should invest in a business that even a fool can run because someday a fool will”. Buffett means that he wants the business to be the ‘star’, not the management. A combination of a brilliant business with competent management is likely going to…