Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt. Show all posts
Friday, 16 May 2014

A comment about wealth...

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**** The ONS has published the latest figures on the UK's wealth. And this has resulted in a load of, mostly ill-informed, articles ei...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2011

A thought about debt...

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This morning while trundling along going nowhere on the treadmill my mind wandered onto this thorny problem of "the debt". Afte...
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Mick and Gerard discuss the banking crisis...

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**** Mick is a gardener – a fictional gardener to be sure but he could be real. Mick cuts grass, trims bushes, digs over and plants up flow...
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Sunday, 5 June 2011

Ski-ing and the prospect of Greek default

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We're told that Greece - despite this weeks latest bailout - is likely to default on its debts. So, even if the EU were willing to t...
Thursday, 13 January 2011

"La, la, la. Not listening, not listening." The Bank of England and the inflation threat

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**** It is a while since I’ve commented on the extent to which our economic lords and masters are ignoring the damage that consistent a...
Thursday, 29 April 2010

F.A.Smith, financial decision-making and the understanding of numbers

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The holidaying Geek from Oxfordshire posted a little video explaining the problem with big numbers. It points out that huge numbers mean al...
Tuesday, 16 February 2010

How labour will confiscate your savings

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*** The public finances are in a mess. The level of Government borrowing cannot be sustained. The prospect of serial strikes by public sect...
Sunday, 14 February 2010

Dear Football - be careful what you wish for it, might come to pass

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I must be getting old and grey – forgetful even – but isn ’t the Conservative Party supposed to be against “government intervention” in priv...
Sunday, 31 January 2010

Perhaps Britain needs a Tea Party too?

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Britain’s economy stutters along in recession or near recession. Our Government’s debt spirals out of control. Our leaders argue over whethe...
Monday, 23 November 2009

Welcome to the Nessie Recession?

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*** Ian Pearson from Futurescape is predicting a "Loch Ness Monster" recession: "...rather than a double dip, our view is t...
Friday, 6 November 2009

Fixing the Finances: we know what to do - get on with it please

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The consistently interesting Burning our Money reports on Sir Stuart Rose's observation on the public finances: "It's very simp...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009

£175,000,000,000 in debt and the Government produces glossy brochures!

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Home from work. Cup of tea. Post (this being a non-strike day it seems). Blood pressure soars. Why? Because this organisation - a waste o...
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