Economy

Interest rates are not going to be cut just because of a “soft landing.” They will only be cut because the economy is in crisis.

We can expect the establishment media to talk up any and every fragment of positive economic news, while wilfully ignoring the negative, right up until the last vote has been counted.

Unlike the 1980s, when the UK had several advantages to grow its way out of the self-harm of the early-1980s, this time around Britain has only disadvantages.

Why, given that it is likely that whatever oil and gas there is west of Shetland is going to stay in the ground, should investors have any interest?

The reason you’re eating out of a foodbank is because the Green-Industrial Complex ate your lunch.

Within a financial frame, then, profit can – and often is (sometimes reasonably) – equated with greed... ). In a deeper sense, however, profit provides an – albeit inaccurate – measure of viability.

A complex civilisation is like a soufflé. It is either growing or collapsing. There is no steady state.

Far from raising the income the government claims it needs the additional taxes will force hundreds of businesses into insolvency.

This was – and is – the fundamental flaw in neoliberalism, and we are about to witness it bringing the house down.

London is displaying all of the symptoms of decline which were so obvious in places like Blackpool a generation ago.