EFFECTS OF TRUMP ECONOMIC POLICIES

10 June 2024Trump economic policy would be to cheapen the dollar, lower interest rates, and weaken the Independence of the Fed. What would the effects of such an American policy on the economy? 1. IntroductionAn American policy aimed at cheapening the dollar, lowering interest rates, and weakening the independence of the Federal Reserve (Fed) would have far-reaching implications. This policy approach could affect various sectors of the...

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GDP, GDP PER CAPITA, VOTER SATISFACTION, PUBLIC POLICY

18 February 2024 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GDP-per-capita-Nominal.pnghttps://youtu.be/azRGcWhJqi8?si=2ZTDEc3rC7fy_eiG... this week, Joseph "hello my friends" Wang answers the very point we, as native peoples, are concerned about....In pt 3, (he always prepares three points, he is a brilliant analyst of weekly markets) he talks about countries that use mass immigration to continue raising their GDP, though...

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DESPAIR AT THE FUTURE OF THE WEST

4 December 2023 Just to watch our foolish leaderships throw away what were once good hands. Fills me with despair. What can we do with our elites except remove them, how to do that? You judge a tree by its fruits. I don't want their media, their propaganda - I pay for and judge the meal in a restaurant, not the chef!And if we don't, if we can't get them out of office? What I think about is the real value of my savings - whether inflation...

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WHEN WILL THE FED PIVOT?

4 October 2023 Of course , America will never default on interest payments, which currently make up about 40% of tax receipts, but with a 32 trillion dollar debt and a higher for longer or even higher, there will be effects on the value of the currency ... maybe not now, but in a year or two's time So that is one thing that would worry other sovereign governments wondering where to put their surpluses - is the dollar safe ?another point...

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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE UK ECONOMY - PT 1

What concerns ordinary people, and therefore politicians, about the economy at the moment is inflation and mortgage interest rates. What they want in general is financial stability, economic growth and social peace.While governments dream up tax and spend programs, central banks are supposed to keep the economy ship-shape as concerns stable prices for consumers, employment and productivity for producers, and currency exchange rate and...

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WHAT IS ELON MUSK DOING?

 9 May 2022                Capitalism requires freedom and private ownership. The idea is to create enterprises that buy and sell goods and services purely for profit. The limited company allowed shareholders to provide start-up capial and be included on the Board as owners. However, what's happened is that for various reasons, the group of shareholders running the company was broadened to include all stakeholders. These new stakeholders...

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DARK CLOUDS

7 May 2022Plague, war, famine, global warming, migrations, rioting.The indicators are all on red, with major economic consequences that states cannot foresee - cause-effect chains, feedback loops, multipliers -  and may not have the resources to buffer. Eg the energy bills you mention; or who'd have thought gas and fertiliser were so tightly bound? or the 700 container ships waiting outside Shanghai port for covid clearance.In addition, we are nearing the end of a long debt-cycle and central banks are raising rates and tightening money supply,...

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DE-DEGLOBALISATION AND THE SHANGHAI COVID OUTBREAK

25 April 2022Strange how China, the world covid champion, is currently managing the latest outbreak in Shanghai.There are 25,000 new cases a day and 9 deaths, offically. Only a third of over 65s are vaccinated as workers get priority. This is nothing, given popn.s of 57 million and 1.4 billion, compared to the UK's 27,000 new daily cases and 280 deaths daily - figures at 25 April.The trouble for China is that the zero covid policy doesn't work with omicron. Especially not at Shanghai, a city as civilised as London or Edinburgh where much of the...

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THE STATE OF THE MARKETS THIS WEEK 17

23 April 2022The market leader industries at the moment are food and farming, and the laggards biotech. From leaders to laggards, the whole market has been falling these last two days. It is very unusual for leading as well as lagging sectors to all fall at the same time.This is bear territory, heading maybe for recession, who knows.....I don't! There are surely technical indicators, indicators that I don't understand and indicators that are anyway probably no longer valid because the economy is so wei...

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TIGHT LABOUR MARKET : WHY SO MANY OVER 50s ARE QUITTING

17 November 2021The tight labour market is not directly a result of covid, nor Brexit, but due to younger people staying on for more studies and older people przferring early retirement.Here is the thinking behind one older person's decision to quit work. (Extract is presented with all punctuation as-found.)===Cool. Think we should leave Britain to the Woke young now. As a bit of an older worker am thinking of moving abroad anyway to retire, with my equity, inheritance, pension and savings, 15+ years early. Personally, speaking, the reason...

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STUDENT LOANS

University students are the very lifeblood of the UK economy. This govt under johnson is splashing cash around to many millions of worthless types, like there is no tomorrow, which there may well not be; it is letting thousands more worthless types scramble up UK beaches every week to join their friends in luxury hotel accomodation, at my expense, while awaiting their passports.And you mean to tell me the govt makes these kids...

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BRACE FOR INTEREST RATE RISES

10 October 2021Petrol - isnt this where fears of inflation started? There's all you need to take your kids to school, we are told, it's in the country somewhere, just not in the right places. So it's only haulage.Later, we are told it is a multitude of small, short-term issues, of which panic-buying fuel is but the latest, and once we're through we'll be in global-Britain times enjoying our prosperity, power and independence to...

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PETROL SHORTAGES : THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

Petrol - there's all you need to take your kids to school. We are told it's in the this country somewhere, just not in the right places. So it's only haulage. We are told it is a multitude of small, short-term issues, of which panic-buying fuel is but the latest, and once we're through we'll be in global Britain-times enjoying our prosperity, power and independence to the max. But as you say, will we? As it feels as though the situation...

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