Funding the Future

Is Trump going to meltdown?

Trump is bringing financial markets down whilst increasing tensions inside and outside the USA. How long is it before he delivers a meltdown?

Do young people really want a dictatorship in the UK?

Young people are giving up on democracy because our politicians are giving up on them. But it’s not democracy that’s at fault – it is our politicians who are. We need a politics that delivers for young people, or the future is very bleak.

Is Trump threatening development?

The world’s developing countries mainly owe their debts in dollars. Trump is, however, making it harder for them to earn dollars, and is trying to inflate the dollar’s value. The result will be massive poverty.

How do we get competent politicians?

Anyone can become an MP. No training is required, and them they set the rules for everyone else. That’s absurd. All prospective parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.

Will uninsurability crash the housing market?

Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will this crash the housing market? There are strong signs it will, unless the government takes action.

DeepSeek is shaking up US capitalism

The DeepSeek AI model challenges US capitalism at its very core – suggesting its whole model of creating value for a few by extracting maximum revenues from people as a result of the abuse of monopoly power might have to end.

People want better government

Rachel Reeves thinks people want deregulation, growth and big infrastructure from government, She’s wrong. They want government that works, better jobs and lower interest rates.

Charter cities would destroy the UK

Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even more harmful than she was.

Why are consumers worried?

UK consumers think there’s trouble ahead and are cutting their spending as a result. That’s the combined fault of the Bank of England and Rachel Reeves, and no one else but them can put matters right.

Is Bitcoin the new gold?

People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold. It isn’t. It is nothing like gold. But more than that we don’t need to be on the gold standard ever again. It destroyed the world economy.