Industries And Businesses That Have Benefitted From The Global Pandemic
The past year has been a very difficult period for many of us as the majority of us have has to alter the way...
The Equation That Drives The Bitcoin Price
Now all we need to do is find the empirical values to plug into this equation. Even better, be able to predict them:
Speculation and...
Muddying the Waters
Here in our dismal pit, we perked up a bit as we read the following headline in the Grauniad:
Clarity on Burford Capital is needed...
People Are Worrying Far Too Much About Corporation Tax
This idea of a digital tax to replace corporation tax is a bad one. Simply because corporation tax itself is a bad tax. The...
Euribor Is Not The European Union’s Equivalent Of Anything
Two blokes who tried to fiddle Euribor have been sentenced to substantial jail terms.
Good.
The more impersonal markets are - and there's little quite as...
Central Bankers May Blow, But They Suck At It
AESOP wrote in the 6th century BC about the North Wind and the Sun competing to remove a traveller's cloak from his back.
The more...
How We Know That Avinash Persaud Is Blowing Smoke About The Financial Transactions Tax
It's possible to the actual work on a financial transactions tax and prove that it's pensioners that pay it, it shrinks the economy, doesn't...
Unicorns and Nightmares
Let it not be said we’re asleep on the job here in our dismal pit. No wide awake are we. Hence, immediately a quill...
The Banks’ Gross Profits On Mortgage Holidays
It does need to be pondered over, just where does The Times get these stories from? For here they're claiming that mortgage holidays are...
The Chicken Coop
We love eggs but wouldn’t bother to keep chickens in order to get any. We prefer to buy them in the supermarket. But absent...