Lefties are constantly on about how trickle-down economics doesn’t work. You introduce money into the economy and the idea is that it works its way down to the man in the street. Sounds a lot like Keynes’ Multiplier Effect to me. A lefty policy to introduce money into the economy which creates economic activity. You…
As seen in the latest issue of Master Investor Magazine. There are board meetings at regular intervals for all companies. Of course there are. They’ll no doubt discuss business opportunities and also the cost of new regulation. Perhaps how the sugar tax will impact revenue and profit. Across town the same meeting is happening in…
British retail seems to be in a bit of difficulty. To be fair it’s mainly the leviathans that haven’t moved with the times. BHS for example. A company that ignored having an online presence until it was too late. Probably this comes about because the management are afraid to make a mistake changing things, and…
I remember when Red Ken was running for Mayor. Livingstone you presume, recently exposed by the Daily Telegraph as having funnelled a couple of hundred grand through a tax avoidance scheme – which is something I haven’t seen any lefties reposting on social media. That was before he was in office, but once he was…
I got on the property ladder by buying houses that needed an awful lot of work doing on them and then doing it mostly myself. I used to punch people who would tell me how lucky I was to have a house. I remember that when it came to selling, one of the agents asked…
The other day a friend of mine posted on Facebook how it would have been her grandmother’s 96th birthday. Of course what she meant was not anything to do with age, but how she missed her grandmother. It got me thinking about how I must have a male ancestor from 1066 and it would inevitably…
I remember when I was a teenager saying to people “if you get three wishes from a genie don’t ask for world peace.” The reply would come “why ever not?!” “Because”, I would reply, “our economy is based on arms sales”. If you read my magazine article “War! What Is It Good For? Absolutely Your…
Normally I avoid using news as an entry signal. I’ve written in this very blog about how most news isn’t even news: it’s noise. Company announcements, many government figures – they’re all released, often with careful timing, in order to achieve an objective. They’re basically infomercials. The other problem is that, given it’s in the…
You may recognise the line “got to keep the loonies on the path” from Roger Waters’ excellent lyrics for Brain Damage on Dark Side of the Moon. A still classic album where Roger’s own description of the lyrics, “very Lower Sixth”, sells short the fact that he managed to sum up the human condition in…
It was Gandhi who said “be the change you wish to see in the world”. Taking his advice I’ve vacuumed up all the spiders in my house this morning: I want the change to be no spiders in my house, and there have been loads. To be fair his earlier advice had failed miserably. It…
