Funding the Future

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

Are uninsurable houses a climate time bomb?

Uninsurable houses as a result of climate change will be a disaster for homeowners, banks, governments and the whole of society. Are we ready for the challenge?

Could the USA default on the dollar?

The world's financial system depends on the dollar, and the man in charge of it is mad, bad, or both. Where are we with the management of the world's reserve currency need in that case?

How many poets does it take?

How many poets does it take to change a lightbulb? It's more complicated than you thought, by some way.

What do you do with a savings glut?

A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that's precisely the problem the world's got right now. The question is, what are we going to do about it? 

Has Trump killed US democracy?

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends the chance of a President being held in contempt of US courts, and that means US democracy is over. What happens next?
 

The problem of the unknown knowns

Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong: he ignored the unknown knowns, and they are a huge issue in modern politics.

Starmer's no big deal

Starmer wants us to think he's doing big foreign policy deals. He isn't. He's playing in the sandpit of international relations, and nothing is really changing.