Funding the Future

Are extreme centrists threatening us?

No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need change. 

Are bond vigilantes in control?

The idea that bond vigilantes can set government policy suits the City and neoliberal politicians, who'd like it to be true. But is it?

Who's going to defend us from fascists?

The obsession with Russia in the defence review is wrong. The real risk is from fascists wherever they come from, and Russia is a long way from being the only threat in that case. 

Trump's going to tax the US to extinction

Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him.

Should big tech issue crypto?

If big tech can issue their own currencies for use around the world, what chance is there that macroeconomic control of the national economies of the world can be maintained? The threat of global meltdown is very real. 

Do you know where your pension is?

Pension funds provide the most opaque form of investment in the UK. It's crazy that all the rules of corporate governance collapse when it comes to pension funds. We need reform now. 

Trump is trashing America

Trump is not delivering greatness to America: he's delivering chaos and decline, and people are beginning to notice.

Why are interest rates so high?

Interest rates in the UK and the USA are way too high, as a comparison with the Eurozone proves. That's because of their incompetent economic leaders.

Ending the two-child benefit will pay for itself

The Labour government claims that it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple economic analysis shows that these benefits pay for themselves.

Millions in the UK are one pay day from disaster

The UK is a country of massive wealth inequality, with all the stress landing on those the wealthy think to be the undeserving poor, which is most of us