Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There's an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in...
Valbury Capital Really Should Go Bust Here – Allowing a £3.8 Billion Futures Position?
This is a fun little story. Bloke decides he's going to trade futures as an individual investor - a dumb decision to start with....
There’s An Obvious Answer To Fractional Reserve Banking – It’s A Useful Fraud
It's entirely true that fractional reserve banking is a fraud, a Ponzi, it's simply outrageous how credit, or wide money, is created. Murray Rothbard...
The Problem With Modern Monetary Theory – Explained For Children So MMT Enthusiasts Can...
This is a rather good explainer for children about what happens if a country decides it can get richer just by printing a lot...
Today’s Harmful Idiot Is Frances Coppolla
It may well be that you don't like what a market price tells you. That doesn't mean that you can - no, not should...
Turkey’s Proof That Speculation Is A Zero Sum Game
A useful little proof from the current Turkish shenannigans that speculation, as speculation itself, is a zero sum game. Whatever is made by one...
Chickens coming home to roost?
Well, well, well. Scaremongering and doomists have been predicting the end of Britain once we Brits leave the European Union—and a double dose of...
Cats And Dogs………Living Together!
So the government borrowed until they couldn't afford the repayments, then they collapsed the debt stack and printed until our currencies were on the...
What’s Your Problem Here, Dingbat?
Horrors, just horrors. People who aid us out of coronavirus induced problems make money. Ain't that just such an immense problem?
While millions of...
With Lookouts Like These…
Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph has a stark warning for us.
"If you are coming off an interest rate of just 0.1pc, the effect on...