The litle Deal clincher
Navigating the Challenges of 21st Century Life: A Private Investor’s Perspective
"A stamped to the exits for UK gilts investors had a catastrophic effect in 2022 for the short-lived government of Conservative prime Minister Liz Truss and her chancellor over taxation and spending plans."
The Markets, Middle East, and Me
The choice for a private investor of when to make strategic comprehensive purchases, sales or changes in operations and remain as rational and unemotionally biased as possible whilst doing so takes concerted effort and diligence.
So far in 2026 events are proving their case over multiple points and a view formed in early March, post- commencement of US/Isreal offensive with Iran that:
With an over-investment in AI systems and leverage in private credit markets combined with wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Sudan. These are likely to affect energy and agrichemical supplies, which effect inflation expectations, causing interest rate cycles to turn and yields to rise. This raises debt servicing costs and lowers economic growth, which reflexively effects AI investment expectations for investors.
Complicity: Accepting It Is Your Fault Forever?
With the renaming and relaunching of the Little Deal Clincher blog to Navigating the Challenges of 21st Century Life: A Private Investor’s Perspective.
I shall continue to comment on investment from the private investor’s perspective and to discuss political and cultural issues. The update makes the website easier to navigate with an archive of topic headings in chronological order.
As part of the relaunch, the August 2023 post in the cultural section features the publication of my complicity dissertation for the MA in Philosophy from the Open University where I graduated in March 2023. Benefitting from a professional edit and chapter photographs hopefully readers find it an interesting read making a pertinent point regarding inherent complicity of political power and responsibility…
How It Started and Why I Do This
Before the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-9 when banks enjoyed rising profits and employees’ their bonuses gained through complex derivatives trading, more relaxed lending practices and expanded balance sheets.
Barclay’s Bank PLC created an advert starring the famous British/Welsh Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins. Sir Antony, or rather his script, encouraged potential customers ‘to be a big deal clincher’ adding disdainfully ‘who wants to be a little deal clincher’ such were the tone of the times, the advert wished striving go-getters to join Barclays and avoid such a pitiful calamity by becoming part of something big and powerful. With the hope that it would provide lucrative banking fees for them. Nevertheless, Barclays still exists today in comparison with many institutions that failed during the crisis...