Most people get about their business dealing with the currency of their country or zone. Pounds, euros, yuan, yen, they know if they visit the United States it would be dollars. Everyone understands that world commodities are traded in...
For the conviction Free Trader, the international classical liberal TTIP is a very natural progression in a global society especially between two great trading blocks the USA and the EU. It begs the expectation of such supporters of 19th...
Well - the response to my interest in bitcoin over the past week has been nothing short of amazing. I was totally surprised at the passion and interaction I was getting for simply saying I plan to buy some...
One of the great historical myths is the American Civil War was fought to abolish slavery. Serious historians know it was neither a civil war, nor was it fought to emancipate slaves. A civil war is about...
Offshore, What’s it All About?
There is much in the news at the moment about offshore companies, tax avoidance and tax evasion. There is no merit in exploring tax evasion which is a crime, and needs to be dealt with...
The electorate of the industrial democracies broadly seem to accept the role of the State in every aspect of their lives, education, health & pensions being prime examples. This is largely unchallenged by modern press, media and politicians. No...
Britain’s Keynesian press & public service broadcasters view President Roosevelt’s New Deal as something to ‘put on a pedestal’ (Guardian June 27). Sadly the New Deal has gone into mainstream academic & political economic archives as successful, remarkable as...
There has been some disingenuous double speak on the subject of Scottish Independence post election at which they triumphed with a platform for independence from the United Kingdom as strong as the conservative party's overwhelming endorsement of independence from...
There has been more wailing and gnashing of teeth this week because Google has not paid its ‘fair share’ of tax. We heard much the same about Starbucks & Amazon, it’s a story that comes around every few months...
Having had a sneak preview of consulting barrister Benjamin Wrench's paper on the concept of risk reward, a concept that built the City of London into the world's most important centre for financial services it might be amusing to...
