The case for imposing a minimum selling price for alcohol
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Minimum price for alcohol
Posted in Economics & Finance, Life, society on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Interest rates for savers
Posted in Economics & Finance, tagged Brown, Gordon, interest rates, mortgage, savers on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The inequity in letting borrrowers borrow at the expense of savers.
So what about us savers?
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics, tagged banks, borrowing, financial crisis, Gordon Brown, interest rates, lending, savings on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Are there many more out there in the UK who are totally hacked off at this government’s treatment of savers during this financial crisis?
At a time when it’s clear to just about anyone with half a brain, that the present problems stem from excessive borrowing, this wonderful government of ours is doing all it can [...]
Quantitative easing
Posted in Economics & Finance, Modern Euphemisms, tagged credit crunch, money, quantitative easing on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or printing money. Seen as one part of the ’solution’ to the credit crunch, when anyone remotely au fait with past monetary problems around the world knows this is a recipe for financial disaster. Still, whilst we seem to have kids in short trousers, in both government and finance running the world these [...]
The Downfall of Gordon Brown – the prequel
Posted in Civil liberties, Economics & Finance, Politics on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A film showing the Labour Party’s solution to the financial crisis in the UK.
UK Energy policy, a rush to self destruction?
Posted in Climate change, Economics & Finance, Political correctness, Politics on December 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, dramatic new targets to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least one-fifth from today’s levels in just over a decade were proposed by the government’s Climate Change Committee.
Why is the UK continuing with its self-flagellation over energy policy? Do the government not realise there is a recession, and people are going to [...]
Bank lending – a solution?
Posted in Economics & Finance, tagged banking, economy, interest, lending on November 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Over a month since I last wrote on this subject, and government and businesses are becoming increasingly desperate and concerned over the failure of banks to lend money, (which after all is what they’re in business for), and stimulate the economy. Now that the UK government (along with other countries) has guaranteed the balance sheets of [...]
VAT – the EU elephant in the room.
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics, tagged Alistair Darling, Brussels, directive, EU, Gordon Brown, VAT on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alistair Darling, (the nominated UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, although some would allege it is still Prime Minister Gordon Brown who pulls the purse strings), is widely expected to attempt to kick start the economy this week by reducing the standard rate of VAT from 17.5% to 15%.
What of course goes unremarked by the europhile [...]
The global banking crisis.
Posted in Economics & Finance, tagged banking, borrowing, crisis, debt, interest, solution on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seemingly the problem now is not one of capital but one of liquidity. Apparently the banks are not behaving like banks should. They are not lending money to one another and the whole cyclical system of revolving credit, debt, and repayment is all but frozen.
So how about this suggestion to get things moving. Instead of [...]
Deripaska, Osborne and that non donation.
Posted in Economics & Finance, Politics, tagged Deripaska, donation, Mandelson, Osborne, Tory Party on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not clear to me why the press, and indeed the Tory party themselves, are behaving so prissily about the suggestion that George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, might have been examining ways in which a donation might be received, presumably legally, by the party. What is wrong with that? Doesn’t everyone in every walk of [...]
