We are not issuing bonds, so the cost of servicing our debt has not magically risen to ‘7%’ because we are not borrowing at that rate, ...

Every calamity in human history tends to have a corresponding scape goat. Often in financial busts it becomes xenophobic, race often pl...

We hear about Debt/GDP all the time (national debt/Gross Domestic Product; total output of the economy) and the standard argument is th...

We have been talking about this for a while (28/01/09, 11/03/09, 23/04/09), it was a popular topic on this blog in 2009 but well covere...

There is one cure for scarcity: abundance. When there is a scarcity of any resource nothing brings down the price quicker than abundanc...

The following is a piece by David Hay, the Chief Investment Officer of Evergreen Capital, it came to me via a newsletter sent by John M...

I have been talking for some time about a ‘rip off’ that the US will attempt to make against China, that it could take a belligerent fo...

I volunteer with a group called Smart Taxes who are a sustainable taxation think tank. This has post is taken from their site (original...

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