Politicians have talked about debt and deficits for decades. But it was just a political hockey puck to pass around. Until Liz Truss changed everything.
The candidates are like two drunken bus drivers, each racing to the same washed-out bridge. One may do a little better job of staying in his lane, but...
In net zero, governments are embarking on the costliest project in the history of humanity. And from a position of dangerously high debt to begin with.
The world’s major economies are stuck in the doldrums, or likely to enter them. This synchronisation creates an unusually high risk of a major economic crisis.
For years we’ve been warning that the transition to net zero is simply too expensive. Now that the mainstream media has cottoned on, what happens next?
Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says it’s time for a change. A funny thing to say when you’ve been the Vice President for the last three and a half years.
It’s easy to get along with people who have no power over you. Their opinions don’t really matter. But what happens when you introduce power into this mix?
It’s been three years since I warned, “Don’t Join The
Children’s [Climate] Crusade.” And one year since identifying “Net Zero’s Metallic Dissonance”. Now what?
The last few days have brought the usual election-year claptrap. Kamala’s supposedly plans to tax her own donors. And Trump’s tariffs are a tax on the poor.
We look like a complete bunch of plonkers to the Japanese. How hard can it be? If you don’t want more immigration, you just stop issuing visas. Why the fuss?
When the Irish defenders of Aughrim Castle opened their ammunition boxes, they discovered that English musket balls were too big for French flintlocks.
No political theory can explain the dysfunction of our institutions. Perhaps they’ve just gotten so big that they don’t care about what policies are imposed.
The Olympics is all about soft power, but in the Middle East, hard power still dominates, with scary implications for energy markets and the global inflation narrative.